Kidney Transplant

Facebook and Organ Donation: What's Your Status?

Leslie Spry, M.D., FACP | Posted 05.02.2012

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Leslie Spry, M.D., FACP

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).

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Kidney Donation: How Do You Match Up?

Leslie Spry, M.D., FACP | Posted 04.25.2012

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Leslie Spry, M.D., FACP

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?

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Mom Reportedly Fired After Donating Kidney To Boss

Posted 04.24.2012

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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 ...

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Calvary Comes With Kidney Transplant to Rescue Detroit Writer, Critic

Jim McFarlin | Posted 04.02.2012

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Jim McFarlin

For far too many patients fighting the valiant fight against chronic kidney disease (CKD), tragically, the call never comes.

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Kidney Transplant Patients Seek Life Without Immune-Suppressing Drugs

AP | LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 05.19.2012

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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...

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Kidney Recipient Needs Match After Donated Organ Tests Positive For Drugs, Alcohol

Posted 03.08.2012

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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...

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Largest Kidney Donor Chain In History Saves 30 Lives

Posted 02.21.2012

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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...

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Aaron Sankin

UCSF Hospital Reverses Decision To Deny Vital Transplant To Immigrant

HuffingtonPost.com | Aaron Sankin | Posted 02.10.2012

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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...

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Conversation With a Dying Man

Melissa Carter | Posted 04.07.2012

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Melissa Carter

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.

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UCSF Denies Dying Immigrant Kidney Transplant Despite Donor And Insurance

Aaron Sankin | Posted 02.02.2012

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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...

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Tom Brady Helps Mentor Find A Kidney Match

Posted 01.28.2012

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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...

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Hospital Denies Girl With Disability A Kidney Transplant

Posted 01.17.2012

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Three-year-old Amelia Rivera suffers from a rare genetic disorder called Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome, and she needs a kidney transplant to survive. B...

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A Little Girl's Kidney, A Nation's Heart

Susan Senator | Posted 03.17.2012

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Susan Senator

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.

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Why A Hospital Should Deny A Transplant To A 'Mentally Retarded' Child

Lisa Belkin | Posted 03.17.2012

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Lisa Belkin

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.

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Nurse Donates Kidney To Patient

Posted 02.21.2012

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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...

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Mom Gives Birth To Miracle Baby

The Huffington Post | Jessica Samakow | Posted 01.03.2012

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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...

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Dad Kept Off Organ Waiting List Because He Was Homeless Gets New Apartment

Posted 12.25.2011

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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...

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Best of TEDTalks 2011, #5: Printing a Human Kidney

Anthony Atala | Posted 01.07.2012

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Anthony Atala

2011-12-20-anthonytetedteddd.jpgTo 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.

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Anthony Atala On Printing Organs

Posted 12.20.2011

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jQuery(function($) { $('#ad_sharebox_260x60').prepend(''); }); In this special year-end collaboration, TED and The Huffington Post are ex...

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Francisco Cortez: Does He Deserve to Be an American?

Agustin Duran | Posted 02.01.2012

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Agustin Duran

Francisco has given his best years to this country, 20 years to be exact, without asking for anything in return.

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My New Kidney

Trey Ellis | Posted 12.04.2011

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Trey Ellis

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.

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Parasite-Infected Kidney Transplants Spark Lawsuits

The Huffington Post | Tara Kelly | Posted 11.19.2011

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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...

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Mom Donates Kidney, Gets Fired

The Huffington Post | Dean Praetorius | Posted 11.15.2011

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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...

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WATCH: Deceased Marine Donates Kidney And Saves Fellow Marine

Posted 10.15.2011

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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...

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Poor Become 'Spare-Parts' Bank For Americans In Illicit Organ Trade

Bloomberg | Michael Smith | Posted 07.12.2011

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An American man had promised to give Picado, a 23-year-old high school dropout who worked as a construction laborer, a job and an apartment in New Yor...

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