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Kidney Donor's Good Deed Hits Bizarre Snag

Apr 9, 2015 2:14 PM CDT

Kidney Donor's Good Deed Hits Bizarre Snag

Transplant on hold because too much money has been raised

(Newser) - An unusual kidney-donation story has taken another strange turn: A transplant involving a Good Samaritan and a woman in need of a kidney is on hold because a fundraising campaign raised too much money, reports the Portland Press Herald . People moved by the generosity of Josh Dall-Leighton have contributed more...

Woman Gives Kidney
to Stranger, Triggers
a Chain Reaction

Mar 5, 2015 1:27 PM CST

Woman Gives Kidney to Stranger, Triggers a Chain Reaction

6 patients, 6 donors in rare series of linked transplants

(Newser) - In a rare series of interlinked operations, six patients are getting kidney transplants from six donors at a San Francisco hospital. Dr. William Bry, a surgeon at California Pacific Medical Center, said the "kidney paired donations" are occurring thanks to a woman who started a chain of donations and...

Stranger Sees Girls' Plea, Gives Their Dad a Kidney

Sep 26, 2014 1:00 AM CDT

Stranger Sees Girls' Plea, Gives Their Dad a Kidney

Donation saves life of Georgia police officer

(Newser) - A Texas man decided to step up and save the life of a total stranger hundreds of miles away after seeing the man's two young daughters plead that "Our Daddy needs a kidney." After Greensboro, Ga., police officer Raleigh Callaway went into stage 5 kidney failure, the...

Kidney Donors
Have Brains 'Built
for Compassion'

STUDY SAYS

Sep 17, 2014 3:02 AM CDT

Kidney Donors Have Brains 'Built for Compassion'

'Empathy zone' is bigger than average, study finds

(Newser) - People who donate kidneys to total strangers aren't just bighearted, they're big-brained compared to most people, researchers say. Neurologists scanned the brains of 39 such donors and found that their brains were 9% bigger than non-donors' brains—with significantly greater volume in the part of the brain that...

After Transplant Saves Son, Mom Returns Favor

Jul 11, 2014 2:46 PM CDT

After Transplant Saves Son, Mom Returns Favor

She's donating kidney to father of deceased youth

(Newser) - It’s the kind of organ donation that California hospital officials say they’ve never seen before: The mother of a man who had a lifesaving pancreas transplant almost 10 years ago is now donating her own kidney to the father of the deceased pancreas donor. When Bill Millard’s...