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Kidney Transplant

Long Island teen finds kidney donor living minutes away

  • Apr 10

14-year-old boy in desperate need of kidney transplant

  • Feb 19
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Actress Bijou Phillips makes plea for kidney donor

  • Feb 12

SoCal teacher donates kidney to friend: 'I want you to live life'

  • Dec 23, 2025

Cop on dialysis and 6 months away from retirement being terminated

  • Dec 18, 2025

Popular LA artist makes plea for a kidney donor

  • Sep 27, 2025

Another man gets pig kidney as transplant trials poised to start

  • Sep 9, 2025

'It's a blessing.' 3 couples celebrate their 6-person kidney exchange

  • Apr 17, 2025

Latest Videos

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Long-lost relative becomes living kidney donor for Lakewood man

  • May 2
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Long-lost relative becomes living kidney donor for Lakewood man

  • May 1
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SoCal teacher donates kidney to friend: 'I want you to live life'

  • Dec 23, 2025
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Popular LA artist makes plea for a kidney donor

  • Sep 27, 2025
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The power of organ donation: 3 couples celebrate after life-saving, 6-person kidney exchange

  • Apr 17, 2025
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Kidney donation bonds lifelong high school friends in Orange County

  • Dec 24, 2024
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Brotherly love: Doctor donates kidney to his little sister

  • Jul 4, 2024
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Healthcare workers at Cedars-Sinai and transplant recipients honor Donate Life Month

  • Apr 3, 2024

Latest Stories

New York man gets second chance at life with rare triple-organ transplant

Doctors at a New York hospital performed a rare three-organ transplant procedure all in one.

  • Apr 4, 2025

Kidney donation bonds lifelong high school friends in Orange County

Vy Tran has always had a sense of adventure and has traveled worldwide. However, that all came to a screeching halt five years ago when he was diagnosed with End-stage Renal Disease.

  • Dec 24, 2024

Black patients move up kidney transplant waitlist in Illinois after race removed from blood test

After six years on the waitlist for a kidney transplant, suburban special education teacher Helena Fields was moved up on the list due to a recent change as to how African American kidney function was evaluated.

  • Aug 1, 2024
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Woman is 1st patient to undergo combined heart pump implant and pig kidney transplant

In a first-of-its-kind procedure, a terminally ill New Jersey woman received a pig kidney transplant and a surgically implanted mechanical heart pump.

  • Apr 24, 2024
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New race-neutral kidney evaluation moves thousands of Black patients up transplant waitlist

More than 14,000 kidney transplant candidates were moved up the waitlist thanks to the new evaluation. Experts say this is an example of identifying the inappropriate use of race in medical care.

  • Apr 23, 2024