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When two-time Super Bowl-winning defensive tackle Khalen Saunders thinks about kidney disease, he doesn't think about statistics. He thinks about...

Kidney disease can change your life, but it doesn't have to define it. Dr. García Echevarría knows that better than most. Diagnosed with polycyst...

In 2022, J. Harrison Ghee, a Tony Award and Grammy Award winner known for their outstanding performances in shows like Some Like It Hot and Kinky Boot...

Photo Credit: HCM Wall of Heroes Eugenia Steffens has dedicated nearly four decades to kidney transplantation and organ donation. Her long-standing nu...

Just weeks after Kamri and Lotanna got engaged in late 2023, their world was turned upside down when Kamri was diagnosed with kidney disease. 

At 24 years old David Rush woke up in a hospital with a dialysis catheter in his neck and no memory of how he got there. Over the next two decades, Da...

When David donated his kidney in January 2024, he wasn’t trying to save someone he knew. He donated to a stranger. More than two years later, David sa...

At just 33 years old, kidney failure changed every part of Mathew (Matt) Bonnen's life—including the way he parented his young son. But after mon...

When Dwayne Sunwald and Peter Agosto learned they were approaching dialysis, they started thinking seriously about what they could do to take more con...

"Belmont Cameli" by Gage Skidmore is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. Fans know Belmont Cameli for his breakout roles in teen dramas and streami...