Initially, no other university hospital equipped to perform an ECMO (Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation) was able to accept and admit 22-year-old Lexi Lester.  Like many hospitals facing sporadic bed shortages across the United States, the hospitals contacted for...

(Above Photo)  Kidney Donor Athletes' One Kidney Climb.  Twenty-two kidney donors climbed to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania to promote living donor organ transplants. Our society is accustomed to complete strangers donating gifts to people they do not...

According to Michigan Medicine’s Inherited Kidney Diseases Clinic, more than 60 genetic diseases are currently known to directly or indirectly affect the kidneys. Inherited kidney conditions range from relatively common conditions to very rare syndromes. The clinic...

NFT pediatric patient, Hannah, and her parents speak about her transplant journey during Give Blood, Share Joy blood drive. When Hannah was eight years old, turning nine, she spent almost an entire year in the hospital.  Her health issues started with concerning...

On Tuesday morning, September 11, 2001, Terry Shaffer was one of the first responders to arrive at Flight 93 crash site in Somerset County, Pennsylvania in a field near Shanksville.  The plane had crashed in Shaffer’s fire district. Tragically, there were no survivors...

Winner of USA Today’s 2021 Best of Humankind Awards, 66-year-old Mark Scotch, termed the phrase “Organ Trail” to describe his cycling journey he started to raise awareness about living organ donation. Scotch’s fourth trail began in March.  He rode his bicycle...

The first three, algebra, geometry, economics are learned in school.  The last one, compassion, is learned along the way to adulthood.  Maybe at home.  Maybe at a place of worship.  Maybe, even, in school.  This is the case with Tom Murtaugh, he mastered all four. ...

Update 5/6/2022:  HBCU medical schools to tackle organ transplant disparitiesA Historical Snapshot Experts say minority and rural communities are underserved.  As early as the 1970s, advocates in the organ transplant community were seeking ways to better engage...

(originally posted March 2021) Receiving a new kidney through an organ transplant offers a second chance at life for patients who have longed to live a normal life free from years of suffering.  A kidney is one of those organs that can be donated by a living donor...

Jim Reineking of USA Today, gives readers an explanation of the video below showing professional soccer players Kljestan and Hegardt exchanging jerseys, “In 2010, Galaxy player Sacha Kljestan — then a member of Chivas USA — visited a cancer patient at Children's...