Jim Taylor, a writer for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, in his Savvy Senior beat, received a question from a senior citizen, “Am I too old to be an organ donor?” The question came from a senior who said he never thought about becoming an organ donor until his brother...

Americans are a resilient group and we love to celebrate important milestones.  Recently, Vanderbilt Health, a transplant center that NFT has worked with for many years, discharged a patient and a celebration was in order.  Lee Foster, after his recent kidney...

What it is. How to get involved. How to offset expenses. Organ donation from a living donor provides a transplant patient with shorter or no wait time; quicker recovery time; and improved long-term outcomes making living donations the preferred type for donations like...

Earlier this year when NFT first reported a COVID-19 patient had received a double-lung transplant the world didn’t know the patient’s name or much else about them except they were struggling to recover from surgery.  However, at the time, it was revealed the patient...

As NFT celebrates National Minority Donor Awareness Month, we recognize the important work started by Howard University during the late 1970s. In 1978, one of the country’s most well-known HBCUs Howard University, embarked on a journey to discover the feelings and...

When the National Foundation for Transplants opened its COVID-19 Response Center in April, it was to help transplant patients navigate financial challenges during a difficult time.  Patients who had either received their transplant or were waiting for their second...

When COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, the Indiana Donor Network reassured Hoosiers on the waiting list that transplants would not slow down.  It appears transplant stats for the state shows the network kept their promise. Beairshelle Edmé, a reporter for FOX59...