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Alva Smith received a letter with surprising news last fall: She was suddenly moving up on the kidney transplant waiting list. It wasn’t because of a change in her medical status. It was because the test used to evaluate prospective kidney transplant candidates began taking race out of the equation.

Nearly seven years ago, Kristi Hadfield was a paramedic who saved a man’s life when he was having a heart attack — just months ago, she gave his daughter a kidney, saving her life too

"I saved your dad, I'm going to save you, too," Molly Jones remembers Kristi Hadfield telling her

"I have my dad because of her, and now I have my life because of her," Molly Jones said about paramedic Kristi Hadfield.

John Cunningham was driving when he suddenly began to feel strange.

Kristi Hadfield saved John Cunningham, a military veteran, in 2016 and years later, donated a kidney to his daughter, Molly

Dr. Amit Tevar, from UPMC, is joining several of his former patients Sunday to raise awareness about kidney donations

“You get to save somebody’s life.” Shaun McQuay recently spoke at a UPMC event to describe his experiences as someone who donated a part of his liver an

As UPMC officials in Williamsport raised a flag signifying April as Donate to Life through organ donations, Shaun McQuay, of Montgomery, said he had goosebump

Startups in the field of bioengineering are attempting to get the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to approve trials involving transplanting animal organs into humans. One of the [...]