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On a black night in late spring 2003, west of Baghdad, I was a single lieutenant defending our cavalry squadron’s position. Insurgents advanced toward me; tracers lighted the air around me. When my life depended on it, someone came for me. The squadron’s response unit arrived and turned back the attack. Eighteen years later, I paid that moment forward. I was the cavalry. I saved someone’s life and then some.

A Minnesota man who donated a kidney to save another person’s life also set a record in the process. Ben Rengstrof is a high school teacher with a mission, which started with a lesson learned after his father received a lung transplant two years ago. “A kidney donation really isn’t that invasive of a surgery,”…

If you’re living with kidney failure in Mississippi and need a transplant, chances are you’ll wait an average five years or more for a life-saving organ. But if you have a living donor, that wait time can be cut to mere weeks or months—and the donor doesn’t even have to be a match.

The longest kidney transplant chain is 35, and was achieved by the National Kidney Registry, as verified between 6 January and 17 June 2015.

In 2005, 70-year-old Barbara Gallas was diagnosed with polycystic kidney disease, a genetic disorder that causes many fluid-filled cysts to grow in the kidneys. Gallas needed a kidney transplant to save her life, and she was a candidate for UC San Diego Health’s Living Donor Kidney Transplant Program.

An interview with Garet Hil, MBA: Entrepreneur, Kidney Donor, and Founder/CEO of the National Kidney Registry.

Lisa Emmott never thought much about the 37 million American adults who suffer from kidney disease until her husband Neil became one of them.

Donating a kidney saves a life—and now, thanks to the National Kidney Registry, it doesn’t have to cost you money.

My mom named my kidneys Sidney and Bodidney. Don’t ask why. None of us know. I just said goodbye to Sidney. On Thursday morning, I completed a five-month journey of becoming a kidney donor.

When Beth Ard's left kidney was removed and placed inside Lavoria Cure, Ard not only became the final donor in a life-altering series of six kidney transplants, she joined an army of volunteers that is radically improving the stingy mathematics of organ transplantation.