Colleen Le will never forget going under the knife to give her boyfriend the ultimate gift: a kidney. Le who’s 30 years old says she was nervous about the surgery, especially since the biggest one she had before was getting her wisdom tooth out. She was anxious about what to […]
What was a chance meeting in a bathroom at work became a lifesaving kidney transplant chain for these two co-workers at a hospital in Atlanta. Susan Ellis and Tia Wimbush have been colleagues for more than a decade at the Children’s Healthcare and they knew other’s husbands were in need […]
This little girl from Pacific, Missouri got a kidney which she needed since she was born. And, her donor was her kindergarten teacher. The girl, Kayleigh Kulage, was a premature baby and came to this world at only 26 weeks. Her mother, Desiree Kulage says how she weighed only 15.2 […]
Creating a bioartificial kidney could be a long-term solution to end-stage renal illness, explains the Kidney Project. This national research project has the goal to make a small and surgically implantable bioartificial kidney that will help with end-stage renal illness. This kidney would give the patients a new hope, better […]
Chronic kidney disease or kidney failure is the gradual loss of kidney function. The kidneys are important organs which help in the filtration of waste and fluids from the blood through the urine. In the early stages of this condition, the symptoms may only be few and the disease may […]