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 retired Chicago firefighter, Patrick McDermott, has found a kidney donor after his emotional story aired on ABC 7 Chicago.

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 ...

Zachary Ryan Short, 33, is in Stage 5 kidney failure caused by a genetic disease. He took to social media to try and find the ...

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

Awake kidney transplants: A new norm for surgery? On July 15, Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine performed its second-ever awake kidney transplant. The patient was a 74-year-old man, who left the ...

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

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

A Zion man is the second to recover from an awake kidney transplant at Northwestern Medicine. ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24/7. Click here to watch Harry Stackhouse was diagnosed with COVID-19 ...

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 ...

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 ...