About 100,000 people in the USA are currently wait...  ...0,000 people in the USA are currently waiting for kidney transplants . The right donor kidney has to come along for a transplant to work. About 50% of patients have a great deal...  ...ients have a great deal of diffi...

(Photo: Tareq Salahuddin)The event is called a kidney transplant chain. It's a sequence of carefully-timed transplants that match donors and recipients for compatibilit...  ...altruistic donor - someone who wants to donate a kidney out of the goodness of his or her heart. That...

(Photos: WXIA-TV)Mariana Villarreal is a waitress...  ...ll, Georgia. She recently lost her grandmother to kidney failure. So when she heard that Don Thomas, a reg...  ...that Don Thomas, a regular customer, had lost his kidneys to cancer, she offered one of hers:"I said, 'Well...  ...she offered one of hers:"I...

Christine Royles, 23, of South Portland, Maine nee...  ...ine Royles, 23, of South Portland, Maine needed a kidney . She took a spot on the national waiting list for...  ...k a spot on the national waiting list for a donor kidney , which is over 100,000 patients long. The odds we...  ...ote a message on the back...

It’s the perfect pick-up opportunity! I wish...  ...binson of Louisville, Kentucky. Robinson needed a kidney transplant . McIntyre heard about him on a local radio show a...  ...y were a match. On April 17 of last year, doctors transplanted one of her kidneys into him. Th...

You hear about people donating a kidney to their spouse, but this story has that backward...  ...s that backward. Kyle Froelich lived with a fatal kidney disorder since he was twelve years old. By the ti...  ...d. By the time he was 19, he desperately needed a kidney transplant...