WASHINGTON (AP) — Brenda Hudson recalls weeks spent in a glass-enclosed isolation room after her first kidney transplant, her family...

Early findings by researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine suggest that the use of a second generation cancer...

‘Once the function of the kidneys drops exponentially, the creatinine level in the blood rises to fatal levels. In such a situation, the...

A Kansas City Dream Factory teenager who has been on a waiting list for a new kidney for two months finally has one. KMBC first reported...

The Conferences Committee for the 47th ANNA National Symposium, the ANNA Research Committee, and the ANNA Specialty Practice Leaders have...

By Yolanda Smith, BPharm A kidney transplant is a valuable procedure that is able to dramatically improve the quality of life of many...

After a kidney transplant, women may experience decreased kidney damage from ischemia reperfusion injury compared to men due to the...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) April is Organ Donation Awareness Month. The push for awareness can help infants, children, and teens in West...

A new study from physicians at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, found there may be long-term benefits to simultaneous liver-kidney...

By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, March 24, 2016 (HealthDay News) — More than half of kidney transplant recipients wind up...

For years, candidates for kidney transplants have had to bide their time on the waiting list until someone who’s a match donates a...

INDIANAPOLIS – A new study shows that a relatively new procedure called “desensitization” allows patients receiving kidney transplants to...

By Gene Emery (Reuters Health) – Transplanting a mismatched kidney from a living donor may lower the risk of death more than not doing a...

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 28 (UPI) — The drug belatacept, sold as Nulojix, showed better organ survival in kidney transplant recipients than...

By Madhumita Murgia 11:59AM GMT 26 Jan 2016 Follow A three-year-old girl from Northern Ireland has become the first to have a...

There is good news in the annual data report from the United States Renal Data System, coordinating center based at the University of...

NEW YORK (FOX 5 NEWS) – Maria Campos, 4, spent the first few years of her life, doing the things most little girls do, but that quickly...

High school junior Miguel Angel Perez stands tall and wears a big grin — you’d never know this 16-year-old is facing a life-threatening...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A 5-year-old boy being treated at Dell Children’s Medical Center is in urgent need of a kidney transplant. Seton...

Kidney transplants saves lives and dramatically improve quality of life, but transplant recipients often must take dozens of pills a day...