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Daily Express· 14 hours agoA transplant is an operation in which a new organ or tissue is put into someone's body. Transplants happen when someone is very ill or dying. The damaged ...
Baseball fan in need of kidney transplant takes search for living donor to the White Sox game
NBC Chicago· 3 days agoIt may have been just another White Sox game for others attending, but a day at the ballpark was a...
'One of the lucky ones': A change in how transplant recipients are evaluated is changing the lives...
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review· 7 days agoAlva Smith received a letter with surprising news last fall: She was suddenly moving up on the ...
University of Utah Health's living kidney donor program is saving additional lives
KSL Salt Lake City· 5 days agokidney donation at University of Utah Health's Transplant Center. The growth in the living donor...
Penn State Health halts liver transplants as national oversight body reviews program
State College Centre Daily Times via Yahoo News· 5 days agoThe move comes just months after OPTN, the oversight body, restored the program to good standing. In...
NHS calls for more living donors amid organ shortage
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 6 days agoBlack patients wait 10 months longer than white patients on average for a kidney because of a lack of suitable donors. Just two per cent of donors are...
Reasons to be a living kidney donor
Medical Xpress· 3 days agoNearly 100,000 people in the U.S. are on the waiting list for kidney transplant, according to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network. Finding ...
Kidney Patients Issue National Health Alert on High Potassium
WKBN 27 Youngstown· 4 days agoThe American Association of Kidney Patients (AAKP), the oldest and largest independent kidney patient consumer organization in the U.S., is raising public ...
Penn State Health halts liver transplants as national oversight body reviews program
Lancaster Online· 4 days agoPenn State Health has stopped performing liver transplants at Milton S. Hershey Medical Center while...
Kidney disease: How to protect yourself and the symptoms the NHS may not spot
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 5 days agoThe UK is facing an unprecedented kidney disease crisis, one which could cost the NHS up to £11...