A life-saving medical technique — a loved one's liver has failed and the doctors say that there is only a last resort to try ...

For those with kidney failure, the wait for a new kidney can take years. There just are not enough organs from deceased ...

More than 90,000 people are on the waiting list for a kidney in the U.S. Unfortunately, less than a third of those waiting ...

New Hampshire native Tim Andrews was quite happy to spend his 67th birthday on Wednesday at Mass General Hospital (MGH). On ...

IN the quiet corners of Tanzania’s bustling cities and rural villages, a silent crisis is unfolding. Kidney disease, often ...

International hockey coach Graeme Francey is sharing his personal journey as part of World Kidney Day to raise awareness ...

Hattie Stiff was born with cystic kidneys and received her first transplant when she was two and a half years old - but then ...

In an effort to raise awareness about kidney-related illnesses on World ... Balasubramaniam, Chief Transplant and Interventional Nephrologist, Kauvery Hospital, Tirunelveli, underlined the need ...

P. Muthukumar, clinical lead and senior consultant nephrologist and transplant physician, Kauvery Hospital, Chennai, will speak on ‘Dialytic therapies for chronic kidney disease’. T.

Rebecca P. Winsett, RN, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis. Judy C. Martin, PhD, APRN, Associate Professor, College of ...

"They asked me if I was willingly donating my kidney to her, not by force," he says. He says he explained the recipient was a relative and the transplant was approved. Zeya remembers the doctors ...