The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved Ozempic to reduce the risk of serious complications in people who have ...

A social media post going viral across the Lowcountry, reaching thousands of people, may give a woman a second lease on life.

Over 1,000 genes may serve as possible treatment targets for individuals with kidney disease, according to a new study, published in Science, from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the ...

Legacy Health Endowment has launched a fund of up to $125,000 to support individuals with cervical cancer or adults ...

Three days into my medical career, my first patient died. She was a 27-year-old who succumbed to an autoimmune liver disease. She had been denied a liver transplant for years because she was uninsured ...

AlJ was surprised to meet the woman who volunteered to give him her kidney at his pre-op appointment for his second organ ...

The recipient was Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old New Hampshire resident who had end-stage kidney disease and was on dialysis for ...

Nearly eight months after suffering a seizure caused by undetected kidney failure, 13-year-old Deziree Del Toro and her ...

As with a human donor kidney, he’ll need to take medications for the rest of his life to keep his body from rejecting the organ. “But this transplant isn’t about me,” he said.

The community is coming together to support Captain Shawn Waguespack, a longtime volunteer officer with the Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Department Reserve Division, as he prepares for a life-saving ...