Illinois woman donated her kidney to a total stranger. What inspired her to help?
Nick Bohn and Molly Clyden have a forever bond, after she reached out to help him when he needed it most.
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Nick Bohn and Molly Clyden have a forever bond, after she reached out to help him when he needed it most.
The kindness of strangers can change lives. A downstate Illinois restaurant owner was shocked by the number of people who reached out to help him when he needed it most.
Surgeons at Northwestern Memorial Hospital earlier this year performed the nation's first known quadruple-organ transplant on a patient with a prior lung transplant.
Each candle represented an organ donor recipient, donor, or someone still waiting for help.
Climbing the stairs to the top of the former John Hancock Center is a feat unto itself, but Laura Valentine did it just months after undergoing a very complicated double organ transplant.
Taevion Norris is a patient at Lurie Children's Hospital, waiting for a heart transplant, but the hospital and his school made sure he wouldn't miss his high school graduation.
Cornelia Tischmacher's lungs were failing because of advanced cancer. Everything changed with a double lung transplant.
Manny Rozelle, a musician from Chatham, has written a song to help find a kidney donor, a musical plea to end his yearslong wait for a transplant.
Last year, surgeons performed 148 lung transplants, the most in a single year since Northwestern's lung transplant program began 10 years ago.
Cancer survivor Batbayar Tserendorj also ran the 2023 Chicago Marathon after delaying his liver transplant surgery, and giving the liver to someone else so he could run.
Both women have spent their lives with health conditions that compelled these transplants.
Doctors chose to keep Stackhouse awake during the transplant because he was at a higher risk of complications.
Lisa Gee's experience taught her the life-saving importance of organ donations for thousands of patients.
Sunday marked the 32nd annual Loyola candle-lighting ceremony.
Sunday marked the 32nd annual Loyola candle-lighting ceremony.
Dr. Gary Gibbon is now cancer-free, six months after the first-ever lung-liver transplant on a cancer patient.
A California doctor who was battling advanced-stage lung cancer is now cancer-free, after surgeons at Northwestern Memorial Hospital completed the first-ever lung and liver transplant on a cancer patient.
A Northwestern Medicine kidney specialist is hoping to take some of the fear out of the transplant process by donating one of her own kidneys.
Dr. Aleksandra Gmurczyk is sharing her story in honor of National Donate Life Month, aimed at convincing more people to become donors.
