Kidney Cancer News

College graduation can be a joyous time for a family- maybe a bit stressful too - but for a young woman about to graduate from La Salle on Sunday there's another big event ahead.

For one north Iowa family, pampering and a day of activities is just the key to help take their minds off of everyday life dealing with a serious illness.

Mohamed Haidar is waiting for the phone call that will change his life. The 21-year-old Henry Ford Community College student needs a kidney transplant, but finding a donor has been almost impossible.

Sacramento's UC Davis Medical Center and four other large University of California hospitals have begun canceling elective surgeries because of a two-day strike planned by some workers next week.

Hackensack University Medical Center received federal approval Friday to restart its kidney transplant program, a year after it shut down because of higher-than-expected rates of death and kidney failure.

A COUPLE who lost their life-saving kidney dialysis machine when it fell out of their van are delighted after it was found.

Taylor Simpson received a kidney from her mother, Lori Vargas, after being diagnosed with Goodpasture syndrome, a rare and life-threatening autoimmune disease.

Transplant researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine challenge a long-held assumption about how biologic pathways trigger immune system rejection of donor organs in a report published online today in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.

Main Category: Transplants / Organ Donations Also Included In: Urology / Nephrology ; Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness Article Date: 17 May 2013 - 1:00 PDT Obese patients who received robotic kidney transplants had fewer wound complications than patients who received traditional "open" transplant surgery, according to surgeons at the University of ... (more)

She says she's met death face to face many times but she isn't willing to give up.

Consumers pay the cost of ordinary care, such as a checkup, a blood test or an eye exam.

Despite a strong warning from U.S. regulators in 2007, for-profit dialysis centers still gave their kidney failure patients more of a certain anemia drug than non-profit centers in 2008, says a new study.

Obese patients who received robotic kidney transplants had fewer wound complications than patients who received traditional "open" transplant surgery, according to surgeons at the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System.

Transplant researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine challenge a long-held assumption about how biologic pathways trigger immune system rejection of donor organs in a report published online today in the Journal of Clinical Investigation .

The Kidney Transplant Disease and Therapy Review provides procedure rates and prevalence numbers and percentages for major countries worldwide.

Steve Jobs was best known for imagining a better future and then organizing others to help him make that future happen.

Sacramento area residents are invited today to attend the premiere of "The Chain," a short documentary about events set in motion by a kidney donor and the "chain" of transplants sparked by her donation.

RICHMOND, BC: MAY 13, 2013 -- Baljot Mangat, 19, right and her father Sukinder Mangat, 48 left admire a flowering tree at their home in Richmond Monday, May 13, 2013.

The provincial government is throwing its support behind legislation establishing a provincewide organ and tissue donation agency and an online donor registry.

A North Texas family of pastors and missionaries wants to spread the word, especially to Hispanics, that religion shouldn't keep anyone from being an organ donor.