organ donation

Donate Life

Are you ready, in the case of a traumatic life-ending event, to donate parts of your body to save someone’s life, if your own life was at an end? April is Donate Life month. Donate Life month serves to create awareness about how registering to be a donor is an incredible act of kindness and…

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Free from dialysis thanks to kidney that needed a little TLC

On Friday, July 26, 2019 Hennepin Healthcare surgeon Dr. Paul Stahler transplanted a hepatitis C-infected kidney into a patient with kidney failure. This new life-saving – and life-changing – protocol of allowing the use of kidneys from hepatitis C-infected donors helps make transplant possible for more patients like CJ Dabney, who was fully aware of…

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