Monthly Archives: June 2011

By Aisling Maki / The Daily News Tennessee’s first-ever paired kidney transplants, which involve living donors matched with patients through a national registry, were performed this week in Memphis by surgeons at Methodist University Hospital, 1265 Union Ave. After waiting … Continue reading →

Westgate High grad donates kidney to father. BY HOLLY LELEUX-THUBRON, THE DAILY IBERIAN Xavier Alexander might have been a player in Major League Baseball but instead chose to be a lifesaver and ended up a hero. The 25-year-old Southern Law … Continue reading →

Cabarrus doctor gains unique perspective after life-saving surgery. By Robin l. Gardner / Independent Tribune  CONCORD, N.C. — Things don’t really feel different. That’s the first reaction Dr. Jon Hobbs gives about how the life-saving kidney transplant has affected his … Continue reading →

by By Gabrielle Chevalier / Noogo.com Doctors found that both Kevin Daves and his wife Jada were the same blood type as their son. They then tested to see if six antigens (white blood cell markers) matched those of Shafers’ … Continue reading →

by Michael David Smith ? ProFootballTalk.NBCsports.com Two weeks ago we passed along word that Tom Martinez, the longtime personal quarterback coach and mentor to Tom Brady, had serious health problems and had been given a grave prognosis of just a … Continue reading →

By BEN WEATHERS / HometownAnnapolis.com BALTIMORE – Sitting on a ledge hundreds of feet above the Canton neighborhood, Michael Mullen was having second thoughts. truggling with his lifelong fear of heights, the 36-year-old Severn man was moments from climbing over … Continue reading →

By Sarah Carlson / Times Daily When Helen Parker’s kidney dialysis machine broke one morning in 1983, the nearest machine wasn’t close enough to save her. “She died in the car by the time we got to the city limits … Continue reading →

by Andy Humbles /  The Tennessean A 20-month old boy with a very rare condition that requires 11 hours of dialysis per day is scheduled to get a new kidney from his mother in Nashville Wednesday. Baby Shafer Daves and … Continue reading →

In a head-to-head study with a market leading treatment designed to prevent kidney transplant rejection, Denmark’s LifeCycle Pharma says that its once-daily experimental drug edged out Astellas’s twice daily Prograf. And investors quickly bid up the biotech’s shares by 40 … Continue reading →