Por: WPLG Local 10 Politics February 27, 2023
MIRAMAR, Fla. – A South Florida mother is making a desperate plea to the public after being diagnosed with stage five kidney failure.Attempts to find a donor for the past four years have failed and now she’s hoping someone out there will be the life saver she’s been waiting for.Mayte Sampedro must be hooked up to a dialysis machine close to eight hours every night.“Every night if I don’t do it, I don’t wake up the next day,” she... + full article
ABC News USA Health December 30, 2022
Two sisters are celebrating a very special anniversary this year: the 50th anniversary of one donating her kidney to the other.Usually organ transplants, such as kidney transplants, last 15 to 20 years if the organ came from a living donor, according to the .The fact that the... + más
Giant kidney stone gets stuck leaving man in excruciating pain for months | Newsweek
These Factors Increase the Risk of Kidney Cancer | Time
Time USA Health December 14, 2022
Kidney cancer is one of the 10 most-diagnosed cancers in the United States. Like many of the other cancers on that list—including colon and rectal cancer—kidney cancer is more common now than it used to be. But unlike some others, the underlying causes of kidney cancer are... + más
Coping With the Side Effects of Kidney-Cancer Treatment | Time
New York Post USA Life November 24, 2022
These lifelong friendships turned into life-saving ones. Christine “Chris” Morales and Debbie Thompson say they have been best friends since they were young girls growing up in California — and have continued to stay close in the decades since. The two bonded during high... + más
Portland Press Herald USA Opinion November 20, 2022
One of the responses I’ve been hearing to my kidney donation is: “[expression of awe,] I could never give one of my kidneys to a stranger.” Here’s the thing: When I started this whole journey (and it has been a journey), I didn’t think I could give one of my kidneys to... + más
Organ Donations Rise Around Motorcycle Rallies | The New York Times
Fort Myers man promotes organ donation from the second row of Elton John concert despite hurricane | WPTV
Time USA Health October 28, 2022
Not long ago, the treatment options available to people with metastatic kidney cancer were few and feeble. Surgical removal of the affected tissue was an effective and often durable fix for people with cancer that was confined to the kidneys. But for the roughly 30% to 40% of... + más
What is metastatic breast cancer? | WPLG Local 10
Newsweek USA Health October 27, 2022
A kidney donation from an HIV-positive donor to an HIV-positive patient has been successfully performed in Denmark, marking the first time this kind of surgery was performed in that country.According to a paper published in the journal BMJ Case Reports, the HIV-positive... + más
Woman saved by 'cord blood' transplant: How it’s helping more bone marrow transplant recipients | ABC News
Newsweek USA Health September 26, 2022
A man has shared the picture of a kidney stone that was stuck inside his body for two months.In a viral Reddit post that garnered over 40,000 upvotes, user Psytoxic showed the stone, which was located between the kidney and the bladder, next to a banana candy for scale, with the... + más
Roger Stone video will play key part in final Jan. 6 hearing | Newsweek
10-year-old Pa. girl’s TikTok post helps find kidney donor for her dad | PennLive
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