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.
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...
Posted 11.13.2011
After using up her vacation days to take care of her dying mother, Claudia Rendon took a leave of absence to donate a kidney to her sick son. But, whe...
Elissa Stein | Posted 10.05.2011
I come to this discussion with a point of view that not too many have. An exceedingly personal point of view. I donated a kidney 8 weeks ago.
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
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...
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,...
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
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...
Posted 05.25.2011
"I believe the reason we all have two kidneys when we only need one is because we were meant to give one away," Cynthia Bowers told the Deseret News W...
Trey Ellis | Posted 11.17.2011
I wish all of you the best Christmas ever. You might be under-employed, under-insured and underfed, but I bet if you ask you've got at least one friend who's just waiting to lend you a hand. Ho ho ho.
AP | David B. Caruso | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK (AP) -- For most of the thousands of Americans who need a new kidney, there are only two ways to go: persuade a friend or relative to donate,...
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 ...
New York Daily News | Christina Boyle | Posted 05.25.2011
Anthony Cottman will soon be able to return to work, go on vacation and walk up subway steps thanks to a woman who agreed to give the Brooklyn man her...
Wall Street Journal | LAURA MECKLER | Posted 05.25.2011
Amid a severe kidney-donor shortage, an idea long considered anathema in the medical community is gaining new currency: payments for people willing to...
Ann Lopez | Posted 04.20.2012