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During World War II, Dr. Willem Kolff revolutionized medicine by creating the first “artificial kidney” from everyday objects such as juice cans, sausage casings, and old washing machine parts. This …

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Thousands of kidney disease patients' lives around the world could be saved every year if countries adopted the UK's rules on organ donation, a new study …

family photo Derris Owen says she feels like her late partner Macauley's organs are living in the four people he saved. A 26-year-old “hero” who died in a farming accident …

With more than 104,000 people on the transplant waiting list in the United States, the need for organ donors is more urgent than ever. “Despite the significant number of transplants …

Karen Peter Mark Piotr dies at just 49 years old due to catastrophic brain hemorrhage Karen Piotr was devastated when her husband Mark died suddenly from a fatal brain hemorrhage …

Paducah SunPaducah Hospital Honors Longtime Organ Donation Coordinator Vanessa Dallas, Who Saved More Than 122 Lives by Connecting Families with Organ Donors. Paducah Hospital Doctors, Nurses and Hospitalists…9 hours ago …

The liver and kidneys were donated to three patients in Sardinia and the heart to a patient in Lombardy, the result of a generous act by the family of a …

The Royal Free Hospital has created a moving film to encourage people to sign the organ donor register. The Royal Free Hospital …

Every year, over 5,00000 Indians die waiting for organs. Sign up as an organ donor and save 8 live.

Baltimore Banner Pediatric heart transplant strengthens father-daughter bond Nine-year-old Maia Coleman and her father, Albert, have been navigating their new lives since her heart transplant, with medical and financial worries. …