MONTREAL , April 24, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ – Since September 18, 2011 , Vincent has been kept alive by a mechanical heart termed a Berlin heart. Not only did he celebrate the Christmas holidays at The Montreal …

More than 1,600 El Pasoans rely on 22 dialysis centers in the region to maintain a certain quality of life while waiting for a lifesaving kidney transplant.

Wallington youngster wins contest.

The kidney transplant program at Hackensack University Medical Center will shut down temporarily “until they can improve their mortality rate” for patients receiving transplants, a Medicare spokesman said Friday.

THOUSANDS of people who would benefit from a kidney transplant are being denied the chance even to be considered for a donor organ because hospitals are failing to put them on the waiting list, keeping the number of would-be recipients artificially low…

Thousands who would benefit from kidney transplant being denied chance for consideration.

It was midnight when retired Navy Petty Officer Second Class Joyce Brillantes received the call in Chula Vista, Calif., that a kidney was waiting for her at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC) in Bethesda, Md. She had spent more than …

Unger, a Petersburg native who helped perform Virginia's first kidney transplant, died in California March 29.