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Kidney Transplant

14-year-old boy in desperate need of kidney transplant

  • Feb 19
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Actress Bijou Phillips makes plea for kidney donor

  • Feb 12

Houston woman shares kidney transplant journey as voice for patients

  • Nov 7, 2025

Another man gets pig kidney as transplant trials poised to start

  • Sep 9, 2025

Man gets second chance at life with rare triple-organ transplant

  • Apr 4, 2025

Black patients move up kidney transplant waitlist after test change

  • Aug 1, 2024

More families come forward amid Memorial Hermann transplant scandal

  • Apr 30, 2024

Family wasn't notified when organ transplant program was suspended

  • Apr 25, 2024

Latest Videos

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Brotherly love: Doctor donates kidney to his little sister

  • Jul 4, 2024
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More families seek court order against doctor involved in Memorial Hermann transplant scandal

  • Apr 30, 2024
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Hospital, doctor face growing legal action in transplant shutdown

  • Apr 25, 2024
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Family wasn't notified when organ transplant program was suspended

  • Apr 25, 2024
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Man waiting 6 years for kidney learns program is suspended

  • Apr 16, 2024
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Woman donates kidney to total stranger thanks to lifesaving matchmaker

  • Feb 9, 2023
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Life-saving kidney swap unites two Texas families

  • Jan 3, 2023
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Texas inmate who is set to be put to death asks for a delay so he can donate kidney

  • Jul 2, 2022

Latest Stories

Widow says husband would still be alive if 'certain things had not happened' at Memorial Hermann

Melanie Crowel said her husband lived with non-alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver for six years and was accepted into Memorial Hermann's transplant program in 2021, but his turn never came.

  • Apr 25, 2024
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Woman is 1st patient to undergo combined heart pump implant and pig kidney transplant

In a first-of-its-kind procedure, a terminally ill New Jersey woman received a pig kidney transplant and a surgically implanted mechanical heart pump.

  • Apr 24, 2024

Families of 3 patients who died waiting for transplants want to keep doctor from destroying evidence

Three families of patients who died while waiting for an organ transplant sought a court order against the former director of Memorial Hermann's liver and kidney transplant programs amid an investigation into "inappropriate activity."

  • Apr 24, 2024
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New race-neutral kidney evaluation moves thousands of Black patients up transplant waitlist

More than 14,000 kidney transplant candidates were moved up the waitlist thanks to the new evaluation. Experts say this is an example of identifying the inappropriate use of race in medical care.

  • Apr 23, 2024

Man waiting 6 years for kidney learns program is suspended, his doctor under investigation

"Should I trust what I'm being told?" a cancer survivor questioned after waiting years for a new kidney and learning his transplant program came to a halt and his doctor was under investigation.

  • Apr 16, 2024