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Hopeful For the Future

I was diagnosed with kidney disease when I was 22 months old. This came as a shock to my parents – we had no family history of kidney disease th...

Treatments and therapies,

Diseases and conditions,

Health systems, social systems, and environmental factors,

Kidney diseases and conditions,

Healthcare system navigation and patient advocacy,

Childhood nephrotic syndrome,

Transition to adult care

A New Kidney for Joe

Although it may seem like kidney disease only affects older people, Joe Mein and his family know that's not the case... In May 2008, at the age o...

Diseases and conditions,

Organ and tissue transplantation and donation,

Kidney diseases and conditions,

Living donor evaluation,

Transplant recipients ,

Everybody Needs an Avocado

My mom sat down next to me at her kitchen table. “I want to do this,” she said. “Holy sh*t, Mom.” I thought of the thousands of convers...

Health systems, social systems, and environmental factors,

Organ and tissue transplantation and donation,

Healthcare system navigation and patient advocacy,

Kidney transplantation,

Patient advocacy

Angelica Hale Has Our Vote on AGT Tonight

Angelica Hale Has Our Vote on AGT Tonight Patient Stories Active living Prevention, daily life, and wellbeing Transplant recipients Kidney groups Chi...

Prevention, daily life, and wellbeing,

Children and adolescents,

Transplant recipients ,

We're All Right

Hayley and Tim’s relationship started out pretty uneventfully. But a few months after they started dating things changed. “He texted me January 11th&n...

Tests and procedures,

Children and adolescents,

Diagnostic, screening, and imaging tests,

Prenatal testing

Selena Gomez Reveals She Had a Kidney Transplant

Selena Gomez’s battle with Lupus led to kidney failure. Francia Raisa’s gift saved her life. Learn more about kidney transplants.

Organ and tissue transplantation and donation,

Living donor programs,

Kidney transplantation

The Perfect Match

This is my story, somewhat condensed. When I was about 8 years old I started getting severe back pains, only to discover that one of my kidneys had fa...

Diseases and conditions,

Organ and tissue transplantation and donation,

Deceased donation,

Kidney diseases and conditions,

Kidney transplantation,

Autoimmune kidney diseases and conditions,

IgA nephropathy

Giving Life on Leap Day

On Feburary 29, 2016 (Leap Day!) I donated my kidney to Ed Hrabe, a family friend.

Organ and tissue transplantation and donation,

Living donor evaluation,

Kidney Donor: “I Would Do it All Over Again”

March 7th, 2016 was a proud day for me. I donated a kidney to someone in need. This wasn’t something I had on my bucket list. But after reading ...

Organ and tissue transplantation and donation,

Living donor evaluation,

3 Celebrities Who Won't Let Kidney Disease Win

Even with 37 million Americans facing chronic kidney disease and millions more living with related ailments, it can sometimes be difficult to put a f...

Diseases and conditions,

People living with one kidney,

Kidney diseases and conditions,

Autoimmune kidney diseases and conditions,

Lupus nephritis