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Stranger Sets Off Incredible Chain of Good Deeds That Saved 6 Lives

Six lives were saved at a hospital this week, and it is all thanks to one woman's decision to “be selfless for a day”.
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Hospital’s 5-transplant Kidney Swap Sets California Record

In what is the largest single-hospital kidney swap in the state, five patients received new kidneys from five healthy donors in a marathon series...

Grandfather Donates Kidney, Sparks Idea for Voucher Program That is Spreading Life

Gift certificate, layaway plan or voucher. Call it what you want, but an innovative organ donation program has started to spread to other transplant...

Marathon 18-Patient Kidney Swap Saves Nine People

Nine patients received new kidneys from nine living donors in a marathon, 36-hour transplant session. The carefully coordinated procedure included specially equipped medical vans ferrying...

Peanut and Food Allergies May Be Reversed with Compound Produced by Healthy Gut Bacteria

Why do we need fiber? it feeds the bacteria in our gut, which in turn produces something that could prevent food allergies and irritations...

Specific Gut Bacteria Extract More Energy Which Seems to be Associated with Obesity

Certain hyper-efficient microbe species in our guts could be the reason why some people gain weight and others don't, proving once again how much...

Pharmacist Changes State Law to Put Expensive Chemo Drugs in the Hands of the Poor and Uninsured

Though there are already some redistribution programs in the US, this is the first that will allow individuals to donate their unused medications.
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60 People Join Largest-ever Organ Exchange After Good Samaritan Donates Initial Kidney

What made the domino chain of 60 operations possible was the willingness of a Good Samaritan, Rick Ruzzamenti, to give an initial kidney after...
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Rachel’s Legacy Inspires Other Kids to Give

Rachel Beckwith wanted to raise money for a clean-water charity by ask­ing for dona­tions instead of presents for her ninth birthday. Now, her death...

Strangers Pay It Forward Today in Largest Kidney Swap, Saving 28 Lives

  The civilians behind the National Kidney Registry website have organized transplants for record numbers of kidney patients over the last three years. Today, the momentum...
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Pay It Forward Kidney Donations Give 14 Patients New Life

It started with an ordinary life-saving organ donation, but after the recipient's husband decided to 'pay it forward' with his own kidney donation, a...