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Kidney Transplant

NCDOT employee donates kidney, helps two people in need

  • Apr 11

Long Island teen finds kidney donor living minutes away

  • Apr 10

14-year-old boy in desperate need of kidney transplant

  • Feb 19
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Actress Bijou Phillips makes plea for kidney donor

  • Feb 12

Former NFL star asks fans for kidney donation

  • Oct 16, 2025

Another man gets pig kidney as transplant trials poised to start

  • Sep 9, 2025

Man gets second chance at life with rare triple-organ transplant

  • Apr 4, 2025

Wilson woman donates kidney to priest battling kidney failure

  • Dec 19, 2024

Latest Videos

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Durham school leader donates kidney to coworker's husband

  • May 7
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Brotherly love: Doctor donates kidney to his little sister

  • Jul 4, 2024
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Man gets kidney transplant while awake

  • Jun 25, 2024
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23-year-old Garner man looking for living kidney donor

  • Feb 27, 2024
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Raleigh artist using music to raise awareness about kidney disease

  • Mar 15, 2023
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Woman donates kidney to total stranger thanks to lifesaving matchmaker

  • Feb 9, 2023
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Life-saving kidney swap unites two Texas families

  • Jan 3, 2023
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Triangle man in need of kidney takes to social media in search of living donor

  • Sep 21, 2022

Latest Stories

Raleigh husband and father in need of life-saving kidney transplant: 'I'm going to find my angel'

16 people die in the U.S. every day waiting for a kidney.

  • Aug 4, 2024

Black patients move up kidney transplant waitlist in Illinois after race removed from blood test

After six years on the waitlist for a kidney transplant, suburban special education teacher Helena Fields was moved up on the list due to a recent change as to how African American kidney function was evaluated.

  • Aug 1, 2024

Make-A-Wish creates lifelong memories for Fuquay-Varina brothers

"We're so grateful and thankful to Make-A-Wish for this opportunity," their mother said. "There aren't enough words to say how thankful we are."

  • Apr 30, 2024
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Woman is 1st patient to undergo combined heart pump implant and pig kidney transplant

In a first-of-its-kind procedure, a terminally ill New Jersey woman received a pig kidney transplant and a surgically implanted mechanical heart pump.

  • Apr 24, 2024
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New race-neutral kidney evaluation moves thousands of Black patients up transplant waitlist

More than 14,000 kidney transplant candidates were moved up the waitlist thanks to the new evaluation. Experts say this is an example of identifying the inappropriate use of race in medical care.

  • Apr 23, 2024