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Ernie Falbo’s future certainly looked, well, uncertain that day two years ago his doctor told him he had kidney disease. Stage 4 kidney disease. At age 79. His numbers were bad and getting worse, the doctor said, and soon he would need daily dialysis or a transplant. 

Today the National Kidney Registry announced the addition of three microsite donor mentors to its microsite program. The microsite program provides free websites and coaching to transplant patients seeking a living donor to increase their chances of achieving a living donor transplant. Donor candidates who sign up for the donation process through a patient’s microsite […]

For Andrew Reinhardt, the decision to donate a kidney to their uncle was easy. “It’s pretty simple math for me,” Reinhardt says. “I’ve got two good kidneys and one good uncle.”

Teenage years can be hard enough, but most teens don’t have to spend hours in the car hooked up to a machine just to stay alive. But one boy from Annabella, Utah, faced just that until he got help from caregivers at Intermountain Sevier Valley Hospital, Primary Children’s Hospital, and an altruistic kidney donor.

One family from Annabella knows the commute to Salt Lake City all too well. It’s where they spent several scary visits to the hospital for their sick son. “I tried to go back to swim practice, then I started blacking out,” Henry Coulter said.

A local couple celebrates the gift of life thanks to a neighbor. It all started a few years ago with a billboard for Linda McGrane. She had friends who owned the company that put up a billboard.

One Reading family is making a special plea for a donation but it isn’t your average ask; they’re asking for a lifesaving organ. “I am at end stage renal failure, which means my kidneys barely function,” said Melanie Johnson, who is in need of a kidney transplant.

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) announced today that its kidney transplant program has performed the most living donor kidney transplants ever in a fiscal year.

Today the National Kidney Registry announced the activation of its 4,000th patient microsite. The microsite program provides free personalized websites, patient coaching, educational materials, and business cards to people who are seeking a living donor (kidney or liver). To date, over 580 microsite patients have achieved a living donor transplant. “For patients in need of […]

A video of a woman surprising her sorority sister as a match for a kidney donation has gone viral after making the rounds online. As of Tuesday, the video had accumulated nearly 1 million views on TikTok alone with hundreds of thousands of likes and more than a thousand comments.