After overcoming kidney failure, a North Carolina woman forms a community to help others in finding donors, turning her ...

Kathleen Beightol found out her husband had a donor match for a kidney transplant, she was overwhelmed with emotion.

A man who was given a life-saving kidney by his wife has told of how he will "never be able to repay her" for donating the ...

A man who was given a life-saving kidney by his wife has told of how he will "never be able to repay her" for donating the ...

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This causes salt and water accumulation, further increasing blood pressure and potentially leading to severe complications such as stroke or kidney damage. Hypertension causes thickening of Small ...

Certain foods are bad for your health if you have kidney disease. Healthy kidneys regulate the body’s mineral and protein levels. But kidney disease causes progressive damage that interferes with ...

However, short-term preservation of organs such as the kidney would be a great advantage in a transplantation program in which cadaver organs are used. Because of encouraging results in our ...

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This means a healthy kidney is removed from a donor and placed into a patient whose kidneys are not working properly. Dr. Carrie Jadlowiec, a Mayo Clinic transplant surgeon, says a living-donor ...