By Mark E. Neumann
PHILADELPHIA — An increase in patient education about living organ donation did not result in improvements in changing patient views of pursuing organ transplantation, according to data presented at ASN Kidney Week. Read the article in Healio.
By Phaedra Threthan
This summer, the last thing on Kaitlin Seigel’s mind was whether she’d be able to enjoy a Thanksgiving meal with her family.
The 15-year-old from Clark, New Jersey, felt nauseous all the time. She was listless and all the color was gone from her face. She couldn’t eat, and the lack of nourishment was making her weak. She didn’t want to hang out with her friends or take part in any school activities, fearful she might get sick. The isolation made her sad and anxious.
Read the full story in USA Today.
By Stephanie Stahl
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A Montgomery County bakery and Facebook played critical roles in saving a life and creating a new forever friendship.
Strangers met for the first time at Penn Medicine and there was already an intense, emotional connection. Check out the full story from CBS News 3 Philadelphia.
By Victoria Socha
The optimal treatment for patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) is living donor kidney transplantation, which offers improved health outcomes. Deprived neighborhoods are defined as those with low socioeconomic status, limited social cohesion, and reduced access to health care. According to Byoungjum Kim and colleagues, there are few data available on the role of neighborhood deprivation in assess to living donor kidney transplantation. Read the full article in DocWire News.
By Eric Coker
For Arielle Disick ’12, donating a kidney in 2022 wasn’t about courage or charity. It was about simply doing something good.
“You never know how much of an impact that a little bit of kindness can make and what the ripple effects will be,” she says. “If you can do something to help, you should help.”
Read the full story in BingUNews.
By Matthew Fahr
It is not often that responding to an email leads to saving someone’s life, but that is what happened to Clarkston school district teacher Jessica Sorensen.
She teaches grades three, four, and five in Clarkston’s virtual program and Dennis Klenow teaches third grade at Independence Elementary; the two have been friends for over 20 years. They knew each other’s kids and had them in their classrooms and taught classes side by side for over a decade. Read the full story in The Oakland Press.
By Jane Bahk
All eyes were on 10-year-old Mason Patel. Nothing would start until he uttered those time-honored words.
“Play ball!” Mason called into the microphone, and the crowd erupted with cheers.
As this year’s Play Ball Kid, Mason represented organ donor recipients at the San Francisco Giants’ 24th Annual Organ Donor Awareness Day on Aug. 30, also known as Donate Life Day. Read the full story from Stanford Medicine Children’s Health.
By Veronia Giarla
Nolan and his uncle Jon are both tall and blonde, but they now have something more in common: The two have an unbreakable bond, thanks to a selfless —and lucky — gift that changed Nolan’s life forever.
The first year after Nolan was born, his primary care physician ran some blood work to try to explain Nolan’s slow weight gain, or “failure to thrive,” which can interfere with brain development and other developmental issues. Nolan’s mother remembers that, “Nolan’s pediatrician told us to get him to Boston Children’s Hospital immediately because his lab tests were concerning. We had no idea what that meant, but we knew Boston Children’s was where we’d find out.”
Read the full story from Boston Children’s Hospital.
By Doug Evans
FAYETTE COUNTY, Ga. – FOX 5 brought together two local men whose lives were changed forever by a kidney transplant back in February. FOX 5 first reported on McIntosh High School athletic director Leon Hammond’s need for a donated kidney last November and U.S. Secret Service agent Alan Reeves who gave him that gift of life. It’s now three months since the transplant surgery. Read or watch the full story from Fox 5 Atlanta.
If you need a kidney transplant, you must first be evaluated for a transplant by a transplant center (a hospital that does transplants – not every hospital does them). The evaluation is used to make sure you’re a good candidate for a transplant. This must happen before any potential living donors can be considered. Read more from National Kidney Foundation here.