KSHB 41's Caroline Hogan shares the story of Diane Hicks, a loving grandmother, big football fan and kidney transplant ...

Matt Brown and son Gavin will spend Father’s Day together at the Angels vs. Orioles MLB game. Just months ago they underwent ...

As of Sept. 4, 2015, 167 of them received deceased donor transplants, six received living donor transplants, two died, five were too sick for transplants and 29 were still waiting.

Heart transplant saved my son's life. Now, the donor network that saved him is under attack. The LOVE Act would create a much-needed donor navigation system to support and coordinate living organ ...

A donor kidney may come from a living or a deceased person. Surgeons will sometimes move a painful kidney to another location in your body. At University of Utah Health, we understand that every ...

According to data from the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, which tracks every organ donation and transplant ...

In 2023, 21,765 kidney transplants were completed, with 6,294 of those organs coming from living donors. About 60% of living donors are related to the recipient, Birdwell said.

How Do I Get a Donor Kidney? If your doctor thinks a transplant is an option for you, they’ll put you in touch with a local transplant center. That’s a hospital that does organ transplants .

The End Kidney Deaths Act (H.R. 2687) is a 10-year pilot program that would provide a refundable tax credit of $10,000 annually for five years to living kidney donors who donate to a stranger.. By ...

Safety of Kidney Transplantation from Donors with HIV under the HOPE Act. New England Journal of Medicine DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2403733 (2024). WHO: ...

Kidney transplantation from donors with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to recipients with HIV is an emerging practice. It has been performed since 2016 under the U.S. congressional HIV Organ Po ...

July 8 (UPI) --In a move to improve kidney transplant equity, a new policy will remove a question about race from the Kidney Donor Profile Index because it "dishonors African American/Black donors." ...