Kidney Transplant

February 13February 13
Surgical Robot Helps Transplant Kidney From Woman To Her Mother
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(WBZ) — Gloucester grandmother Nettie Williams helped get her grandchildren ready to go out for dinner Thursday night, to celebrate her 54th birthday. “You just wouldn’t think that I’ve just had a kidney transplant,” she said with a big smile. She did, though, ending two years of kidney failure and dialysis caused by diabetes – with […]
December 01December 11
UPDATE: Local Viewer Offers Kidney to Cathedral City Man in Need of Transplant
UPDATE: Exclusive: Local Viewer Offers Kidney to Cathedral City Man in Need of Transplant We first met Marco Curiel last week after Desert Wraps, a local business gave him a free advertisement for his car to help him find a kidney donor. We asked him to stop by to show us the finished wrap, little […]

Kitty Alvarado
November 26November 27
Local Business Helping Cathedral City Man’s Search for Kidney
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At just 31-years-old Marco Curiel from Cathedral City was dealt a devastating blow. “I, I was kind of in shock I didn’t really know where to go from there,” says Curiel. Two years ago doctors told him he’s at end stage renal disease. “I didn’t know that it was going to involve going to dialysis […]

Kitty Alvarado
November 05November 05
Doctors perform world’s first kidney transplant using single-incision robot
- Entertainment
Doctors at the Cleveland Clinic have performed the world’s first kidney transplant using a single-port robot, according to a release from the Cleveland Clinic. The single-port kidney transplant enables all surgical instruments and the donor kidney to be placed through one small abdominal incision. Dr. Jihad Kaouk and his team were the first hospital in […]
May 03May 03
A drone just flew a kidney to a transplant patient for the first time ever. It won’t be the last.
- Entertainment
Talk about a special delivery. In the wee hours of April 19, a custom-made drone roughly the size of a washing machine lifted off from a neighborhood in southwestern Baltimore and whisked a human kidney to a nearby hospital, where a team of surgeons successfully transplanted the organ into a critically ill patient. The 2.8-mile, […]
July 16July 16
Daughter Donates Kidney to Give Mother New Life
- Entertainment
When Tina Quizon’s nightly call back home to her parents went unanswered one day, she knew something was wrong. Her mother, Juliet Quizon, had failing kidneys for over a decade, something she kept hidden from her daughters because she didn’t even want them to consider donating a kidney to her. “What if one of them […]
August 25
Special Day for Deputy Hero, Love Dodgers
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Palm Desert, CA KMIR invited Riverside County Sheriff’s Deputy Alicia Lopez for a studio tour on Friday, to show her how special she is to so many for her selfless gift. It would be a morning full of surprises. When Deputy Lopez walked in she had no idea her former co-worker Angelina Castleberry. They were co-workers […]

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August 02
UPDATE: Deputy Hero Gets Good News
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Loma Linda, CA Angelina Castleberry, a former Riverside County Sheriff’s deputy has a lot to be thankful for these days. Her first stop after her three-year-old son Matthew’s successful kidney transplant was to visit the hero donor at her bedside who saved her son’s life and give her the good news. "His kidney is working," whispers Castleberry […]

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