Living-donor transplantation is an option for some organs. For people over 18 born with two functioning kidneys, they can donate one and continue to live a healthy life. An altruistic living-donor ...

Kara Cater of Cranberry Township has Alport Syndrome, a genetic disease that can cause kidney disease. Her kidneys have been in decline for 17 years and, without a kidney transplant, she will likely ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Thirteen people die every day in the United States due to a lack of kidney donors and transplants. That’s why Mark Scotch and his wife, Lynn, have dedicated the last five years ...

Toledo woman, Leah Williams, is proof of that. She’s been waiting since 2022 for a living kidney donor. “I want people to know how hard it is to go through this,” Williams said.

New York was the first state in the country to pass such a measure. Donor advocates estimated it could save 100 lives per ...

Nearly one in three (27 per cent) kidney transplants are from a living donor, benefiting about 900 patients in the UK each year. In 2023-24, 185 of those transplants were performed through the ...

According to the National Kidney Foundation, 123,000 Americans are on that waitlist. More than a 100,000 of those waiting ...

and the NHS Blood and Transplant’s associate medical director for living donations Lisa Burnapp said a kidney from a living donor like Mr Collins offered the best chance of successful transplant for ...