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True Love’s Kidney: Overcoming Kidney Failure Together

Fitness instructor, influencer, and businesswoman Tatiana Zambardino knows how to work hard and face challenges head-on. So, when her then fianc, now...

Patient advocacy,

Healthcare system navigation and patient advocacy,

Health systems, social systems, and environmental factors,

Thirty-Three Years in the Making: Donating a Kidney Altruistically

This information will help you learn more about kidney health.

Life, Love, and Transplant: Wife Donates Kidney to Husband

By the time Lindsay met her future husband Denis in college, he had been dealing with kidney issues for years. It was a normal part of life that both ...

Transplant recipients ,

Instincts and Impact: The Decision to Donate a Kidney

Kellye Miller has always followed her instinct. As a fourth-year college student, she gave up a physics scholarship to pursue communications at a new ...

Patient advocacy,

Healthcare system navigation and patient advocacy,

Health systems, social systems, and environmental factors,

Becoming a Living Donor

Living kidney donation allows a healthy person to donate one kidney. It offers benefits like a shorter wait and better match for the recipient.

Living donation,

Organ and tissue transplantation and donation,

When Courage Meets Kindness

When Courage Meets Kindness Jennifer Cramer-Miller Marcia Ballinger, a leader in the Twin Cities executive search community, involves herself in an ar...

Patient advocacy,

Healthcare system navigation and patient advocacy,

Health systems, social systems, and environmental factors,

Baby on Dialysis: A Family's Brave Battle and Journey to Transplant

With a healthy toddler named Atticus at home, Tara and Josh Schwerdt weren't nervous about expanding their family. Halfway through Tara's second preg...

Children and adolescents,

Kidney Hero to Squid Game Warrior: Jada’s Inspiring Story

From donating a kidney to competing in Squid Game: The Challenge, Jada Sasha has always taken chances and followed her dreams. Read on to discover the...

A Life-Changing Decision: How Tania's Kidney Donation Transformed Lives

When Tania Kasongo learned her father needed a kidney, she immediately stepped up to become a kidney donor so his health wouldn't continue to spiral. ...

Advocates Hold August Meetings to Advance Kidney Health Agenda

For the third consecutive August, Voices for Kidney Health patient advocates made the most of the congressional district work period by meeting with t...

Home hemodialysis,

Treatments and therapies,