A youngster who develops diabetes in his teens may need a kidney transplant by the time he's thirty."

VOA: special.2010.06.07

"My sister has been in renal failure for months now." "You're supposed to give her a kidney?"

VOA: special.2009.06.12

Over time,high blood sugar can lead to blindness, kidney failure, heart disease and nerve damage.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

He died June nineteenth from kidney failure and a rare and painful skin disorder.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

And between thirty and fifty percent of lupus patients will develop lupus-related kidney disease.

VOA: special.2009.04.14

People with malaria may suffer kidney failure or loss of red blood cells.

VOA: special.2009.05.26

And,between thirty and fifty percent of lupus patients will develop lupus-related kidney disease.

VOA: special.2010.06.15

Dr.Patrick Mbugua says Kenyans no longer need to go to India or other places to get their kidney transplants.

VOA: standard.2010.05.30

It's one of six kidney transplants done by the Spanish-Kenyan team in mid-March at Kenya's largest public health facility, Kenyatta National Hospital.

VOA: standard.2010.05.30

The Interlife partnership is now able to offer a kidney transplant and follow-up treatment for around $4,550 - about half of what it used to be.

VOA: standard.2010.05.30

He's supplying blood for his sister-in-law, who suffers from kidney complications.

VOA: standard.2010.06.04

In addition,the study revealed that minority children had a higher incidence of HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases, asthma,certain cancers, and even success rates for treatment of kidney and heart diseases.

VOA: standard.2010.04.07

People often become donors because a loved one needs a kidney.

VOA: standard.2010.03.11

"Every year we list more and more people for a kidney transplant and that's because more and more people are developing kidney failure, more people are becoming candidates for a transplant."

VOA: standard.2010.03.11

"If you match live donors to other healthy people in the population there is no increased risk of dying down the road attributable to having only one kidney instead of two."

VOA: standard.2010.03.11

Kenya's first kidney transplant took place in 1978.

VOA: standard.2010.05.30

Failure to maintain tight control of glucose levels - by measuring blood sugar with a meter and compensating with doses of insulin - can result in serious health complications, including blindness, kidney failure and heart disease.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

"What we found is that live donation is very safe, the risk of dying from donating a kidney is 3 in 10,000 which is much lower than the risk of almost any other operation that you can undergo."

VOA: standard.2010.03.11