Monthly Archives: March 2012

By Jim McFarlin / Huffington Post For far too many patients fighting the valiant fight against chronic kidney disease (CKD), tragically, the call never comes. The cavalry call. Almost every year, more than 4,500 Americans die waiting for the news … Continue reading →

Greg Adomaitis/The News of Cumberland County MAURICE RIVER TWP., NEW JERSEY — He’s got a new kidney and she’s got an incision that’s glued together but both were in good company Thursday afternoon. Virginia Blair-Gonzalez, the Lawrence Township wife who … Continue reading →

By CAROL WERSICH . The Republic DARMSTADT, Ind. — Bobbie Davis, a Tell City, Ind., resident employed as a security officer, likes to help people in any way she can. “I don’t have lots of money. I do it by … Continue reading →

by Agnes Hagin / The Fish Wrap Weston “Wes” Easterwood of Cedartown and Carlotta Ingle, formerly of Rockmart, will soon be forever joined by the gift of an organ donation. He needed a kidney and she was a match. Both … Continue reading →

This Is Leicestershire A woman has told how she burst into tears when she was reunited with her brother after she saved his life by giving him one of her kidneys. Shindo Mold said she broke down the first time … Continue reading →

By MELISSA BROOKS – The Times-Herald “I just didn’t want anyone to go through this agony and pain for me,” she said. But in May 2011, when the transplant surgery revealed that Daniel had a tumor on his pancreas, Danna … Continue reading →

CBS Atlanta ATLANTA (CBS ATLANTA) -It wasn’t your traditional avenue for advertising for a kidney transplant, but it led to Bryson Dickman receiving a brand new kidney. The poster the Dickman family plastered around their hometown of Acworth asking the … Continue reading →

By the Washington Post PRISTINA, Kosovo — A Canadian man testified Friday that he paid $105,000 (€80,000) to an Israeli citizen in 2008 to organize a kidney transplant in a Kosovo clinic allegedly used by an international organ trafficking network … Continue reading →

MedicalXpress Due to organ shortages, innovative strategies are needed to allow the growing number of individuals with kidney failure to receive transplants. Through living donor paired exchange programs, donors give their kidneys to strangers—essentially swapping them—after learning they cannot donate … Continue reading →

BY Janet Lavelle / U-T San Diego Charles Wesley has plenty on his plate right now. His 4-year-old daughter, Laelia, is recovering at home in Linda Vista after her sixth serious surgery to treat arthrogryposis, a rare joint and muscle … Continue reading →