A Minnesota woman in her 80s is now living with stage 5 kidney disease after a surgeon allegedly removed her kidney during what was supposed to be a routine spleen removal procedure, according to a ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A Twin Cities woman is suing over an alleged medical mistake that she says cost her a healthy left kidney. In a lawsuit filed Friday, Wendy Rappaport of Plymouth accuses the ...

French surgeons wrongly removed a healthy kidney from a cancer patient, leaving the elderly man with just one of the blood cleaning organs—which is diseased. Radio France reported that in July of this ...

A Minnesota woman has filed a lawsuit that alleges her surgeon removed her kidney, and not her spleen, in 2022, leaving her with significant health issues According to the lawsuit documents, Wendy ...

Donna Calhoun jokes that her surgery earlier this month to remove her diseased kidney was no more of a big deal than welcoming three sons into the world. "You just give birth to your kidney," she said ...

More than 90,000 people are on the kidney waiting list in the United States. Living donors supply about a third of all donated kidneys. This lifesaving choice can be made on behalf of a known person, ...

Bordeaux University Hospital (CHU) in France is leading the charge to improve success rates of complex kidney tumor removal surgery, thanks to unique full-color, multi-material 3D printing technology.

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Within the last 10 years, minimally invasive surgery, also known as "keyhole" or "band-aid" surgery, has become an alternative to ...

PORT ANGELES — Longtime councilman and former mayor Gary Braun has missed the last two City Council meetings and may miss a third in May. But under the circumstances, he probably will be excused by ...

MONDAY, June 4, 2018 -- Many people with advanced kidney cancer might not need to have their kidneys removed during treatment, something that until now has been standard practice. Advertisement ...