A MAN banned from driving has been given a reprieve after magistrates heard he was on 24-hour call for a kidney and pancreas transplant.

At age 37, Doug Thompson is currently awaiting word from his doctors that he is healthy enough to receive a kidney transplant from his mother. In the meantime, he is using an at-home form of treatment that has brought his independence back and is gaini…

Two weeks after a 10-person transplant chain gave five people new kidneys, donors and recipients reunited at Mercy Medical Center, where the paired organ exchange made Iowa history. 26 photos: The kidney transplants from start to finish

Barcelona defender and French international Eric Abidal will be hospitalised for up to four days for checks on his kidney transplant, the Spanish club said Wednesday.

To feel like absolute garbage and have several episodes beforehand where you really thought you were going to die, to go to feeling as though nothing could kill you, is nothing short of miraculous.

Beaverton, Ore., man begging by the side of road for kidney donor, waiting year for transplant

A kidney transplant is often a tedious procedure. Many patients prefer to die a slow death rather than undergoing painful and costly dialysis because they can’t get a matching kidney.

South Carolina doctors may have found a new way to fight kidney disease in humans using a cat. Doctors performed a ground-breaking stem cell transplant on a 14-year-old cat with the disease on Monday. Sabrina is now recovering. Doctors hope similar tre…

Seventeen-year-old Haley Wilson has not let the need for a kidney transplant slow her down.

Bishop Robert Edwards undergoes dialysis Friday at the DCI clinic in Madison. For many African-Americans who have diabetes, dialysis treatments are a fact of life.