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Read the latest news articles on kidney donation and the National Kidney Registry.

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.

After eight years on dialysis, Jordan Ryan knew she could die without a new kidney, but her chance of receiving one was slim, especially since a kidney donated by her uncle years earlier had failed because of her disease. Then she got the call: It was the miracle match the family had prayed for.

New York firefighter Kevin Shea was dragged out only minutes before the North Tower fell, and was one of only 13 members of his Upper West Side firehouse to make it out alive. 16 years later, the hero celebrated his amazing fortune by giving the gift of life to a stranger—a 59-year-old special-ed teacher in desperate need of a kidney.