Good Samaritan Kidney Donor, Who Was Fired by Employer for Taking Time Off to Donate a Kidney, Wins Lawsuit

The National Kidney Registry and Zabell & Associates announced today the favorable resolution of a lawsuit, funded by the National Kidney Registry, in support of a Good Samaritan donor, involving unlawful discrimination and workplace retaliation. The donor initiated a chain of transplants, organized by the National Kidney Registry, by donating her kidney to a stranger …

One Lambda and NKR Introduce The Toolbox to Help Hardest-to-Match Patients Shorten Wait Time for Transplants

One Lambda, Inc., the leader in antibody detection products, and the National Kidney Registry announced the introduction of The Toolbox, a new innovative web module. The Toolbox is designed to help medical professionals make intelligent decisions on donor selection based on antibody profiles of patients. At the same time, The Toolbox will help medical professionals …

First Valentine’s Day Donor Chain

On Valentine’s Day, one of the nation’s first three-way living-donor kidney transplant chains was initiated by New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center and its medical partner The Rogosin Institute. The innovative approach—a NEAD (never-ending altruistic donor) chain—may dramatically improve the opportunity for patients in need of kidney transplants to find a compatible donor and potentially …