CHICAGO (CBS) — A 74-year-old Zion man is celebrating a new lease on life after he underwent a kidney transplant while he was still awake. Harry Stackhouse, a father of six and grandfather to 17 ...

A Zion man is the second to recover from an awake kidney transplant at Northwestern Medicine.

CHICAGO, Ill. (Ivanhoe Newswire) - There are more than 780,000 people living with kidney disease. On average, 25,000 people will receive a transplant each year, but 90,000 people are still on the ...

Stem cell donations save lives—and they are often a selfless act to help a stranger. But one case involving a Chicago man with leukemia shows it can help the donor too—in profound ways.

Read about an awake kidney transplant at Northwestern Medicine, where a 74-year-old patient was discharged just 36 hours after the painless procedure.

For patients who can't have anesthesia, a new approach to surgery allows them to remain awake during their own kidney transplants.

⁠Transplant surgeons at Northwestern Medicine in Illinois have performed what is thought to be the first awake kidney transplant in the US. The patient, 28-year-old John Nicholas of Chicago, was ...

With wait for kidney transplant killing me, a plea to potential live donors As the years and months pass by, my health, due to my kidney failure, has further deteriorated.

Black kidney transplant patients have moved up on the surgery waitlist in Illinois after the factor of race was removed from eGFR blood test.

CHICAGO, Ill. (Ivanhoe Newswire) - There are more than 780,000 people living with kidney disease. On average, 25,000 people will receive a transplant each year. But 90,000 people are still on the ...

Stem cell donations save lives—and they are often a selfless act to help a stranger. But one case involving a Chicago man with leukemia shows it can help the donor too—in profound ways.