In a step toward increasing access to donor organs, scientists have converted a blood-type-A kidney to blood type O and then transplanted it into a brain-dead person. The kidney, which had essentially ...
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a progressive condition that begins with tissue damage and gradually leads to loss of kidney function. The condition, which affects about 10% of the global population, ...
One year ago, Congressman Donald Payne Jr. died while waiting for a kidney. He had planned to lead the End Kidney Deaths Act (H.R. 2687), bipartisan legislation that would save 100,000 lives and ...