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"Our intention was to make allocation of kidneys as class-, race-, age- and gender-free as possible," said Formica, who is also director of transplant medicine at the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn. "So if you gotkidney disease, everybody is treated exactly the same—that'...
"This exciting research shows that stem cell treatment could improve the quality of donor kidneys," said Dr. Maria Tennant, Head of Communications at Kidney Research UK. "Right now, there are not enough kidney transplants available for everyone who needs one, and a transplant doesn't last for...
New York Man Admits Brokering Illegal Kidney Transplants for ThreeA New York man became the first person convicted of black-marketorgan trafficking in the United...By TribuneReview
A Long Island woman is giving her father the gift of life. He's suffering from kidney disease, and she is going to be his donor. As CBS New York's Jennifer McLogan reports, the family is hoping to inspire others to become organ donors. Read mor
Surgeons at NYU Langone Health performed the first-ever combined mechanical heart pump and gene-edited pig kidney transplant surgery in a 54-year-old woman with heart and kidney failure—a confluence of advances that showcase the possibility and hope of
When single father Guy Maple shows up as the result of an ad meant to be a joke, the handsome Montana construction worker isn’t joking. Money is tight this Christmas, and Guy’s four-year-old daughter Emma has stage-five chronic kidney disease. She needs a kidney transplant, but if Gu...
New-onset diabetes after transplantation (NODAT) is a serious complication after kidney transplantation. Obesity was widely identified as a modifiable risk factor for NODAT. Body mass index (BMI) is the most frequently used diagnostic indication of obesity, and higher pretransplant BMI has been rep...
Just two days before her death another doctor finally diagnosed her kidney disease, but in 1937 nothing could be done—kidney dialysis would not be available for another decade, and transplants would not be an option until the mid-1950s. * * * Second City Sanctimony The New Yorker rarely ...