People with HIV can safely receive donated kidneys from deceased donors with the virus, according to a large study that comes ...

Photo: The identical Herrick twins were the first participants in a successful kidney transplant. The idea of transplanting organs is not new. It can be found in myths of the ancient Greeks and ...

John Nicholas is the very first known patient to be awake during his own kidney transplant surgery. “They called out my name ...

Doctors between last September and this August performed 85 kidney, heart and liver transplants. Surgeons also accomplished ...

MINOT, N.D. (KMOT) - The National Kidney Foundation said it is rare for a married couple to be a match for a kidney ...

Kidney transplantation is an alternative method for treating kidney failure and can save a patient's life. This procedure involves implanting a kidney from an organ donor into the patient’s body ...

It is just as safe and effective for people with HIV in need of kidney transplantation to get their organ from donors who are also HIV positive as it is from donors who are not infected with the virus ...

UAB has completed more than 16,000 successful organ transplants since 1968, when our team performed Alabama’s first kidney transplant. Since then, UAB has been consistently recognized as one of ...

“Our study demonstrates overwhelmingly that kidney transplantation from donors who are HIV positive to HIV-positive ...

Kidney disease had taken the lives of three close relatives—his father and two first cousins—and he didn’t want the same thing to happen to him. White was on and off the transplant list in ...

We offer a comprehensive range of services including liver and kidney transplantation. Specialty physicians in cardiology, nephrology and pulmonology are available for consults. We also actively ...

That is, to be able to transplant people without the need for immunosuppressive drugs. “When we say tolerance, we’re ...