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).
Leslie Spry, M.D., FACP | Posted 04.25.2012
April is National Donate Life Month, and if you're thinking about donating a kidney, now would be the time to find out what it's all about. Did you ever wonder how they match potential organ donors with people who need organs?
Posted 04.24.2012
After giving the gift of life, a New York mom received her worst nightmare in return. To help her boss move up the transplant waiting list, Debbie ...
Jim McFarlin | Posted 05.30.2012
For far too many patients fighting the valiant fight against chronic kidney disease (CKD), tragically, the call never comes.
AP | LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 05.19.2012
WASHINGTON — Lindsay Porter's kidneys were failing rapidly when a friend offered to donate one of his. Then she made an unusual request: Would h...
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...
Posted 02.21.2012
When Debbie Gianquinto found out that she couldn't donate her kidney to her husband, Dan, she offered up her much-needed organ to a stranger in Florid...
HuffingtonPost.com | Aaron Sankin | Posted 02.10.2012
Update: Change.org has withdrawn their statement about UCSF agreeing to perform Mr. Navarro's procedure. Instead, the hospital has referred him to a c...
Melissa Carter | Posted 04.07.2012
Neil Millman wanted to give me some pointers about what was ahead of me. As I walked into his hospice room, I knew it could just as easily have been my room. The cancer that is attacking his body is the result of taking drugs for years that kept his transplanted kidney alive.
Aaron Sankin | Posted 02.02.2012
Jesus Navarro had everything he needed to get a kidney transplant in the United States--private insurance and a willing donor, his wife, with a compat...
Posted 01.28.2012
Tom Brady took a break from Super Bowl training to remind fans of another feat he's determined to win, helping to find his 66-year-old mentor a kidney...
Posted 01.17.2012
Three-year-old Amelia Rivera suffers from a rare genetic disorder called Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome, and she needs a kidney transplant to survive. B...
Susan Senator | Posted 03.17.2012
Why do doctors get to decide whether a child's cognitive abilities make her a candidate for an organ transplant? That is what has me so upset over Amelia's doctors: the implication that some humans are better than others.
Lisa Belkin | Posted 03.17.2012
Amelia Rivera is 3 years old. Born with Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome, doctors have told her parents that she will die in 6 months to a year without a kidney transplant. They also said that they would not perform that transplant.
Posted 02.21.2012
Not only is Clay Taber about to marry his college sweetheart, but the 23-year-old now has a new lease on life thanks to a nurse who offered her own ki...
The Huffington Post | Jessica Samakow | Posted 01.03.2012
Nilda Vargas, a 37-year-old police officer in the Bronx gave birth to 6-pound 4-ounce Ayden, who she calls her "miracle baby" on Wednesday. In 2008, V...
Posted 12.25.2011
A homeless dad who was told that he couldn't get a kidney transplant because he was homeless, got the keys to a new Manhattan home Saturday, CBS repor...
Anthony Atala | Posted 01.07.2012
To many people, the idea of growing replacement body parts in the lab sounds like modern-day science fiction. In truth, it's quickly becoming science fact.
Posted 12.20.2011
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Agustin Duran | Posted 02.01.2012
Francisco has given his best years to this country, 20 years to be exact, without asking for anything in return.
Trey Ellis | Posted 12.04.2011
I'm doing great. After living through over ten years of deteriorating kidney function, Dan, one of my best friends since the fifth grade, coughed up one of his own and then a brilliant and nimble team of doctors tucked it into my belly, just above my right hip.
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...
The Huffington Post | Dean Praetorius | Posted 11.15.2011
Giving an employee medical leave for a kidney transplant would seem to be a no brainer for most employers. But Claudia Rendon, a 41-year-old mother...
Posted 10.15.2011
Sgt. Jacob Chadwick, 23, was devastated when he learned that his kidney donor had withdrawn. Chadwick knew his chance of finding another donor who mat...
Sarah Hall | Posted 05.29.2012