Girl, nine, has ‘beat the odds’ battling kidney failure, organ transplant complications and bowel cancer since a toddler

The mum of a girl who fought kidney failure aged two before having a kidney transplant and receiving a bowel cancer diagnosis ...
MPR

FDA Accepts Imlifidase BLA for Desensitization in Kidney Transplantation

Imlifidase is a Streptococcus pyogenes-derived cysteine protease that rapidly degrades immunoglobulin G antibodies within 2 to 6 hours of administration.

Community rallies in Mesa for tennis event to help fund Phoenix-area toddler's kidney transplant

The Children's Organ Transplant Association (COTA) held the "Rally For Rylee" tennis event in Mesa on Saturday to honor ...

Bijou Phillips Says She’s “Hanging on by a Thread” as She Awaits Urgent Kidney Transplant

The actress shared the terrifying reality of dialysis and her plea for a donor.
Healio

Kidney transplant rates from brain, circulatory death donors now nearly equal

Three-quarters of kidney transplants in the U.S. come from deceased donors, and donation after circulatory death, in contrast ...

Local Artist David 'Big Sleeps' Velasquez Needs Life-Saving Kidney Transplant

For Kidney Health Awareness Month, friend and former KTLA Photographer Louie Mejia received a kidney transplant that saved ...
WPSD Local 6

'I was meant to do this' — Kidney voucher program aids Paducah couple in transplant process

March is National Kidney Month, a time to raise awareness about kidney-related illnesses and kidney donors. One local woman ...

Cicero community rallies to support CNS graduate awaiting kidney transplant

Hundreds of people gathered Saturday at the Cicero American Legion to support an 18-year-old Cicero-North Syracuse graduate whose life changed just weeks before ...