The sentencing last week of a New York man for brokering illegal kidney transplants included a surprise revelation that one of the surgeries apparently took place in Minnesota.

KEARNEY — Even as he struggles with chronic kidney disease, Nick Franssen does his best to take life one day at a time.

76-year-old Julie Hock, who is on a waiting list with about 92,000 others, hopes his public appeals will help find him a donor soon

A cousin, who lives in Arizona, offers new hope for Lisa Keck a Darmstadt, Ind., woman in need of a kidney transplant.

THE Davao Regional Hospital in Tagum City, Davao del Norte, was recognized as the number one hospital out of the 13 kidney transplant centers outside Metro Manila. Based on the 2007-2011 Transplant Census report of the Philippine Renal Disease Registry…

Thousands of Americans await a life-saving kidney or liver transplant, and many of them are over age 50 and at risk for heart disease. This month the American Heart Association attempts to bring harmony to the varied cardiac evaluation policies created…

Doctors at the Hue Central Hospital in central Vietnam on Tuesday completed a kidney transplant for a woman who had both her kidneys removed in a bizarre act of malpractice by doctors in the Mekong Delta.

There were instant benefits for Dan Heins after a kidney transplant saved his life. For Nancy Volk, the donor, life was also restored, but in a more subtle fashion.

It's not the summer vacation fifth grader Erika Ramirez thought she'd be having. On one of the final days of class before school got out for summer break, she started to feel sick.

WASHINGTON — The House Ethics Committee has launched an investigation to further its inquiry into allegations that Rep. Shelley Berkley, the Nevada Democrat who is running for Senate, intervened to keep open a Las Vegas kidney transplant center in whi…