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People with HIV can receive or donate kidneys if their viral load is undetectable and CD4 count is above 200. Learn more about the HOPE Act and criter...

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...

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

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...

http://www.kidney.org/livingdonationPriya Verghese is Professor of Nephrology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a pediat...

In the fall of 2015, Alex Fox saw a Facebook post that would change his life. It was a picture of Darienne, a young girl with special needs whose mom,...

In October 2011, my friend Matt’s life was turned upside down when he found out that he was in kidney failure and needed to start dialysis immediately...

Minnesota musician, filmmaker, producer and composer Chris Strouth had been dealing with kidney disease for years before his kidneys finally failed in...

Did you know that in 2016, kidney transplants saved more than 19,000 lives? Of course each of these transplants profoundly impacted the recipients, bu...