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Volunteer Hospital Driver Gets Favor Returned Decades After Becoming Friends with a 6-yo–She Gave her Kidney

Krystal was 6 years old when Dave Polen began transporting her over 170 miles from her home in Somerville, Indiana, to a hospital. She was...

For First Time, Pig Kidneys Provide Life-Sustaining Organ Function in Human: Hope for 100,000 on Donor List

For the first time, genetically modified pig kidneys provided “life-sustaining kidney function” during the course of a planned seven-day clinical study—a first step in...

Implantable Artificial Kidney That Frees Patients From Dialysis On Horizon After Successful Trial

Sufferers living with kidney failure can soon look forward to a future without dialysis or a long waits for an organ transplant, thanks to...

Woman Saved After Her Dog Found a Kidney Donor at the Beach: One-in-22 Million Odds

In an absolutely jaw-dropping change of fortune, a Welshwoman with late-stage renal failure met a kidney donor on the beach who happened to be...

Inspired By Daughter’s Life-Saving Kidney Donor, Father Returns the Favor and Becomes a Donor

A Welshman decided to donate his kidney to an unknown patient after his daughter received a donated one in a potentially life-saving procedure. When Arfon...

Coffee May Cut Risk of Acute Kidney Injury, Scientists Discover

If you need another reason to start the day drinking a cup of joe, a recent study by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers has revealed...

Man Finds Love on Tinder… And a New Kidney – ‘I Never Would’ve Expected That’

Making a connection on the dating app Tinder can lead to anything from a casual hookup to a lifetime commitment. For one lucky couple,...

First Artificial Kidney That Would Free People From Dialysis and Transplants Runs on Blood Pressure

The Kidney Project’s implantable bioartificial kidney, one that promises to free kidney disease patients from dialysis machines and transplant waiting lists, took another big...

Israeli Woman Donates Her Kidney to a 3-Year-old Palestinian Boy in Gaza

When armed conflict is a way of life, a lasting resolution may seem beyond reach. And yet, while small acts of personal courage may...

Co-Workers Donate Their Kidneys to Save Each Other’s Husbands

The COVID-19 pandemic has put life as we knew it on hold for more than a year, but as things finally settle back into...

2 Days After Her Wedding, Bride Donates Kidney to Groom’s Ex-Wife

When a woman marries, she’s generally showered with gifts. But one big-hearted bride recently decided it was better to give than to receive. In...

Canadians Buy Home for Man Who Needs Kidney and Had to Quit His Job (Which Was Helping Others)

They say home is where the heart is, but when the home you’re living in isn’t safe, the heartache can be a real headache....

Mother of NHL Hockey Star Donates Kidney to Ice Rink Manager Who Kept Her Kids Out of Trouble

To make it in any professional sport takes skill, determination, and practice. Having someone who believes in you and goes out of their way...

‘She’s Our Miracle’: This Minnesota Teacher Donated a Kidney to the School’s Custodian

The dictionary definition for the word "custodian" is someone who has responsibility for or looks after something. This past summer, one fortunate Minnesota grade-school...

Woman Donates Kidney to the Cop Who Locked Her Up (Watch)

A woman whose picture was once on the ‘Most Wanted List’ in Franklin County, Alabama is so grateful to the officer who arrested her,...

MIT Researchers Believe They‘ve Developed a New Treatment for Easing the Passage of Kidney Stones

There are not that many treatments for kidney stones—but MIT researchers believe they have found a new way to make passing stones faster and less painful.

84-Year-old Nonchalantly Becomes Nation’s Oldest Living Kidney Donor After Seeing His Neighbor’s Yard Sign

A youthful octogenarian has just become the nation's oldest living kidney donor after he saved the life of his 72-year-old neighbor.

When Sick Teen Needed Stable Housing to Get a Kidney, His Math Teacher Welcomed Him Home

Since this teacher has welcomed one of his students into his home, the teen will now be eligible for the kidney transplant list.

In World First, HIV-Positive Woman Donates Kidney to a Fellow HIV-Positive Patient

35-year-old Nina Martinez unknowingly contracted HIV as an infant – but now, she's proudly making history as the first living HIV-positive kidney donor.

20 Years After Divorce, Woman Gives Her Ex-Husband a Kidney: ‘It Wasn’t Even a Decision’

Despite not being a long-term match for each other romantically, these Minnesota divorcees turned into a medical match made in heaven. Mary Ziegler and Bill...