Cumberland County's Monika Malina made a huge decision when she chose to donate her kidney to her husband, Milos.
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 ...
"A match made in service." The powerful story of two airmen who are now connected in more ways than one, thanks to organ ...
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 ...
Living kidney donation is when a healthy person donates one of their two kidneys while they are alive. Getting a kidney from a living donor has lots of benefits for the person who needs a ...
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 ...
She has been on the kidney transplant list for months, but waiting for a donor could take up to a year. A living donor, however, could save her much sooner. “It could mean saving my life and ...
Bonfert was first diagnosed with kidney disease when he was 12. He's been relatively healthy until the last couple of years, and the last two months have been rough. He said he's had brain fog and is ...
NORTH TONAWANDA, N.Y. — A North Tonawanda woman is waiting for a kidney donor. 25-year-old Brittany Empson has type 1 diabetes and type O blood. Brittany shared her story on WNY Kidney ...
She’s praying a living donor will come forward to give her son a new lease on life. “He’s been on the wait list a long time,” she said. Beauduy’s body struggled to accept the kidney he ...
announced the consolidation of two vital initiatives-the David Atkins Fund and the living kidney donor program in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area-that aim to remove financial barriers to living ...