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- A 72-year-old woman from Wolcott will receive the greatest gift of her life next week, thanks to one of her daughter's friends. The friend made a selfless decision to give back. Marilyn Beherns was waiting to receive a kidney, but didn't know how long she might have to wait. "I was on a...

-- The two Mississippi sisters whose jail sentences were suspended on the condition that one donate a kidney to the other will leave prison Friday, a state official said. Gladys and Jamie Scott will be released at 8 a.m. from the prison in Pearl, just outside of Jackson, said Mississippi...

Biomarkers can identify kidney disease FRAMINGHAM, Mass., -- Three biomarkers -- substances that may signal disease -- could help predict kidney disease, U.S. researchers say. Dr. Caroline Fox of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study in Framingham, Mass...

Man gets new kidney in transplant 'chain' SAN DIEGO, -- San Diego doctors say a patient awaiting a kidney transplant has a new organ after his wife donated hers -- but to a stranger, not to her husband. Oscar and Rita Ayub were participants in a National Kidney Registry live-saving...

Transient kidney failure not so bad CINCINNATI, (UPI) -- Heart patient kidney failure -- if transient -- may not be as harmful as once thought, U.S. researchers say. Dr. Andrew Burger of the University of Cincinnati says heart patients had better outcomes if worsening kidney function was...

New kidney-failure therapy is proposed INDIANAPOLIS, (UPI) -- U.S. medical scientists say they've determined a protein involved in the kidney's embryonic development might play a future role in treating kidney failure. Indiana University School of Medicine researchers led by Drs. Katherine...

Philippine officials say Saudi man married local woman to sidestep law, buy her kidney By Teresa Cerojano, The Associated Press MANILA, Philippines - A Saudi Arabian man married a Filipino woman as a cover for buying her kidney, trying to circumvent the Philippines' strict new rules to fight...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP)—Florida Gov. Charlie Crist has signed a kidney transplant bill named for former Miami Heat star Alonzo Mourning(notes). Mourning, himself a kidney transplant recipient, was on hand for the signing ceremony Wednesday at a Tallahassee dialysis center. It was a return visit...