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In Kenya, kidney failure has skyrocketed over the past five years following a dramatic rise in diabetes, hypertension and other ailments. The demand for dialysis - an expensive procedure for most Kenyans - far outstrips the supply of dialysis machine
The kindness of strangers Last year, we reported on a new approach to lifesaving kidney donations, a kind of pay-it-forward idea, pairing those in need with those willing to be donors for people they've never met. From that first selfless gift, many
US Researchers Hope to Increase Availability of Donor Lungs WASHINGTON U.S. scientists are conducting a study that they hope will increase the number of donor lungs available to patients needing transplants. Their effort is aimed at finding the best
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Now for an improbable love story. Now, here you might be thinking, aren't the bookshelves groaning with those? But here's a love story that did not just change two people's lives. It shed light on inequalities that our next guest
The annual Transplant Society gathering is described as the world's most authoritative academic conference on organ transplants. This year's event in Hong Kong has seen Chinese transplant surgeons and researchers provide an open and comprehensive ove
By Carol Pearson Washington, DC 17 January 2007 watch Uterus Transplant report A New York hospital is taking initial steps to offer the first uterus transplant in the United States. Doctors in Saudi Arabia performed the procedure a few years ago but