kidney donation

A father and daughter reunited Tuesday after they both underwent surgery last week. She gave him her kidney.

A father and daughter reunited Tuesday after they both underwent surgery last week. She gave him her kidney. Brianna Laviero and her dad Jeff are recovering together after lengthy surgeries last week at Yale New Haven Hospital. Jeff suffers from a rare condition where scar tissue builds up in the kidney. He said it effects seven in one million people…

The 53 year-old newlywed is now among the African Americans who make up 30-percent of Americans with kidney failure, despite being just 13-percent of the us population according to the American Kidney Fund.

March is National Kidney Month; chronic kidney disease impacts one in seven adults in the United States and African-Americans make up nearly a third of Americans with kidney failure. People can spend years waiting for an organ to become available from a deceased donor, making living organ donation critically important for survival. For Jacqueline Lucier, discovering that she has chronic…

They aren’t supposed to get along, let alone be friends, but this new wife and ex-wife say they’re sisters for life after a kidney transplant

A kidney in Italy was delivered by police in a Lamborghini Huracan to promote an organ donor campaign being run by Italy’s National Transplant Center and the Ministry of Health.

A Maryland woman donated a kidney to her husband, and it may have saved her life, too. Tonja and Perry Paylor of Silver Spring met at Hampton University and have been married for seven years. “Once we had that first conversation, we just never stopped talking from there,” Tonja said. “She is a very loving person and she’s actually...

A mother’s desperate call for help on a billboard connected her with a man who would become a living donor for her son.