Kidney

About 90,000 people are on the waiting list for a kidney transplant. About 90,000 Americans are on the waiting list for a kidney transplant, according to the U.S. Health Resources …

January 31, 2019 Forbes helps lead kidney and pancreas transplant program Rachel Forbes, MD, MBA, assistant professor of surgery, has been appointed associate chair of the Division of Kidney and …

Currently we must have an exact match to receive an organ from a donor, especially kidneys, but that may no longer be an issue.

There has never been a safer time to donate a kidney. The risk of death for people who donate kidneys has fallen by more than half over the past decade, …

This is Part 3 of Embedded Bias, a series revealing how race-based clinical algorithms pervade medicine and why it’s so difficult to change them. There it was on James Cannon’s …

Left to right: Ardis Doorenbos (UIC), Stephen Green (Rush), Mark Lockwood (UIC), Lisa Tussing Humphreys (UIC), Beatriz Peñalbel Bernabe (UIC). (Photo by Jenny Fontaine/University of Illinois at Chicago) An interdisciplinary …

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) – A former East Carolina high school basketball coach was forced to step down for health reasons but is hoping to return to coaching. Last season, William …

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain For the first time, an automated insulin delivery system has been tested in people with type 1 diabetes and end-stage renal disease, finding that the system …

MINOT, Maine (WABI) – Over the past few years, we've followed the story of a central Maine boy and his journey to getting a new kidney. Unfortunately, he is also …

Gift of Life Michigan staff walk us through the organ donation process, from the hospital referral to laboratory testing to surgery and …