How you get there, and who you get there with, can be just as important as the places you end up.
Leslie Spry, M.D., FACP | Posted 05.02.2012
Harnessing the power of social media for any social good is to be commended, and the issue of organ donation is near and dear to my heart (and kidneys).
Ann Lopez | Posted 04.20.2012
Today, Donate Life America celebrates National Donate Life Blue and Green Day to inspire people to register as organ donors. Giving the Gift of Life, as organ donation is called, has had a profound effect on my own life.
Posted 03.08.2012
In 2007, Oklahoma resident Blake Jordan Pearce received his first kidney transplant. Days later, he became the only patient in the world to reject a t...
AP | LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 01.28.2012
WASHINGTON — More and more people are donating one of their kidneys to a loved one, a friend, even a stranger, and now a move is on to make sure...
The Huffington Post | Tara Kelly | Posted 11.19.2011
The perils of organ transplants seem to have no bounds. But now two lawsuits have been filed against Mississippi Organ Recovery Agency and the Uni...
Erica Liepmann | Posted 06.05.2011
"Hi, Mommy. It's me. I've got some good news! I just got a call from Ellen, the committee has cleared me as a [kidney] donor for you. I'm really excit...
Posted 05.25.2011
WDRB Fox 41 reports that a Kentucky woman placed an ad in a local paper looking to find a kidney donor for her ailing friend. Margot Kirchner wante...
Elissa Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
There's something wrong with a system in which corporations makes health decisions for people based on numbers, contracts or fees. Where patients are voiceless in their treatment.
Posted 05.25.2011
Two weeks ago, Wake Forest baseball coach Tom Walter went under the knife to save the life of a young player suffering from an autoimmune disorder. W...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
ST. CLOUD, Minn. — Not flowers and hearts, but a kidney: A Minnesota man will get a Valentine's Day gift of a lifetime. Ron Spanier and fiance ...
Posted 05.25.2011
For 16 people in renal failure, acts of kindness from 16 donors will save their lives. In Washington, D.C., a huge chain of 32 operations will transf...
Posted 05.25.2011
When Kyla Winters contracted meningitis, doctors were forced to amputate both legs below the knees and her fingers. But her life was put in serious da...
Posted 05.25.2011
Pennsylvania man John Nakata has been told he only has two years left to live -- if he does not receive a kidney donation. Desperate to find a donor,...
AP | STEPHANIE REITZ | Posted 05.25.2011
HARTFORD, Conn. — Politicians long ago discovered the uses of Facebook. East Haven Mayor April Capone Almon found something else there: a consti...
Emily Liebert | Posted 11.17.2011
With hundreds of millions of users forming a vast web of personal and professional connections, I reasoned, there must be something good resulting. Turns out, I was right.
Posted 05.25.2011
As children, Phil Saviano and Susan Pavlak were both abused -- Saviano by a Catholic priest and Pavlak by a nun. Over the years, Saviano has fought t...
Posted 05.25.2011
For years, Minneapolis woman Sherry Hanson suffered from kidney disease, forcing her to go to dialysis three times a week. The process left her exhau...
BBC News | Posted 05.25.2011
On the eve of World Kidney Day, Adrian Mole Author Sue Townsend - who underwent a kidney transplant operation last year - is appealing for people to c...
The Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 05.25.2011
As part of its Bearing Witness 2.0 project, the Huffington Post is rounding up a few of the best local stories of the day. Some organ donors are imp...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
In Iraq, where a fifth of people live in poverty and where unemployment is at least 18 percent, increasingly more people must resort to selling their ...
Jacob M. Appel | Posted 05.25.2011
If aborted fetuses prove to be a useful source of organs for transplant, we may soon have to grapple with yet another controversial and startling phenomenon: a legal market in fetal tissue and organs.
Jill Brooke | Posted 11.17.2011
For anyone going through a divorce, there has to be a blinking light that switches on in your head reminding you that you will not make the best decision because of the stresses you're under and to proceed with caution.
news.aol.com | Posted 05.25.2011
When they were married, a New York doctor gave up one of his kidneys to save his ailing wife. Now they're getting a divorce, and he wants it back. ...
The New York Times | William Yardley | Posted 11.17.2011
Annamarie Ausnes is known for holding up the line at her favorite Starbucks here, carefully counting out her coins to pay for her "short drip, double-...
Sarah Hall | Posted 05.29.2012