LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- After a rare six-part transplant at Jewish Hospital in Louisville, six people are bonded by three kidneys. On Tuesday, they sat down together to talk about the gift they ...
Using 3-D printing, scientists have created tiny, intricate tubes that work like key components of real kidneys. Many more steps are needed before they can make artificial kidney replacement parts, ...
If you had the chance to help save a co-worker’s life, would you? How far would you go? A generous, brave 51-year-old single mother from St. Petersburg is giving the ultimate gift to her co-worker.
JACKSON, Miss. — For 16 years, sisters Jamie and Gladys Scott have shared a life behind bars for their part in an $11 armed robbery. To share freedom, they must also share a kidney. Mississippi Gov.
Rep. Susie Swanson said the thought of donating a kidney once terrified her. Swanson, a Republican legislator from Clay Center, had never been through surgery, and her tolerance for pain is not too ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Doctors have transplanted a pig kidney into a New Jersey woman who was near death, part of a dramatic pair of surgeries that also stabilized her failing heart. Lisa Pisano’s ...
“Did you know that you can just give your kidney to someone who needs it?” This is the text that I sent to my husband shortly after reading about non-directed kidney donation for the first time.
No sooner did the recipient of her kidney donation open her envelope and read her name aloud than Olivia Miller began welling up in tears. Miller made a beeline for the woman, Esmerelda Guerrero, whom ...
Doctors operate on UK 5-year-old and find duplex kidneys. May 18, 2010— -- Angel Burton had repeated and painful kidney infections from the time she was born in Louth in Lincolnshire, England.