By Megan Hussey, Times Correspondent Friday, November 30, 2012 Christine Clark Curti, 49, and her husband Kevin Curti, 55, with items donated by local businesses that will be a part of a fundraiser Sunday in New Port Richey. She was diagnosed with end-…

A Wisconsin woman is recovering from a successful kidney transplant thanks to a billboard advertisement. The woman's friends bought the ad a year ago in hopes of finding an organ donor, and it worked. Emily Matesic reports.

Nine people were convicted on Nov 29 in the illegal transplant and sale of a teenager's kidney. Seven of those convicted face one to five years in prison, and two others face fines, according to Xinhuanet.com.

The first ever swap kidney transplant in Andhra Pradesh was conducted on two couples belonging to different communities at CARE Hospital in Hyderabad.

Dr. Joseph E. Murray, who performed the world's first successful kidney transplant and won a Nobel Prize for his pioneering work, has died. He was 93.

Dr. Joseph E. Murray, who performed the world's first successful kidney transplant and won a Nobel Prize for his pioneering work, has died.

Dr. Joseph E. Murray, who performed the world's first successful kidney transplant and won a Nobel Prize for his pioneering work, has died in Boston. He was 93.

Murray and colleagues performed first kidney transplant in 1954 on 23-year-old Richard Herrick, who had kidney failure

Dr. Joseph Murray, Nobel winner who performed 1st successful kidney transplant, dies in Boston

"Kidney transplants seem so routine now," Murray told The New York Times after he won the Nobel. "But the first one was like Lindbergh’s flight across the ocean."