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Medical illustration of living kidney donation.Credit: Mayo Clinic More than 90,000 people in the United States are waiting for a kidney transplant, and demand outstrips available supply, highlighting the critical …

GARNER, N.C. (WTVD) — At just 23 years old, Harris Canady faces a battle he never expected. He is a musician, soil scientist, and North Carolina State University graduate whose …

Kyoto – Kyoto University Hospital announced on Monday that it had performed the world’s first simultaneous lung and liver transplant from a living donor. In an operation on November 15 …

Liver transplantation has been accepted as a life-saving treatment and standard of care for many forms of end-stage liver disease since the early 1980s. Initially, all liver transplants used livers …

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Thanks to a change in national policy, people who are in overall good health and live well-controlled type 2 diabetes can donate a kidney. Dr. Naim Issa …

When it comes to life-saving liver transplants in children, there are a variety of medical advantages to receiving organs from living donors compared to receiving organs from deceased donors. These …

Sixty percent of the liver transplants needed in the United States occur in children under 5 years of age. Leaders at Seattle Children’s Hospital say more awareness of living donors …

As previously observed, our results suggest that, considered as a whole, the psychosocial status of LKD remains stable after donation3, 9, 30, 31. Few adverse psychosocial outcomes following donation were …

Sixteen years of bad lifestyle choices have ruined my life. My marriage was dissolved. Connections with friends and family were almost completely severed. I moved from job to job for …