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Mar 14, 2024 Celebrating Life and Hope on World Kidney Day 2024: A Closer Look at Kidney Transplants and Emphasizing Living Donation

World Kidney Day is a global health awareness campaign that aims to shine a spotlight on the importance of our kidneys and the need to protect them. It is a day dedicated to raising awareness about the significant role our kidneys play in our overall ...

Nov 20, 2023 Liver Transplant Recipient Thankful for Life Saving Care and Organ Donation

This Thanksgiving when liver transplant recipient, Joe Gammon, reflects on the many things he is thankful for, the gift of life and the team that made it possible will undoubtedly be on his mind. It’s been just over a year since, 56 year-old North Texan, ...

Jun 8, 2023 6th Annual NASH Day continues the push for awareness about nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH)

June 8, 2023 marks the 6th annual International NASH Day - a public education campaign to raise awareness and immediacy around fatty liver disease and its more progressive form: NASH (nonalcoholic steatohepatitis). According to the Global Liver Institute, ...

May 10, 2022 The most common liver diseases

The liver – the largest organ inside your body – is a vital organ performing hundreds of tasks associated with food digestion, energy storage and waste filtering. Liver disease, also called hepatic disease, is a general term that refers to any condition ...

Apr 21, 2022 Methodist leads the way in North Texas to bring equality to kidney transplants

In the United States, more than 37 million adults have kidney diseases with a disproportionate number of those people being minorities, like Black and Hispanic. In many areas of healthcare, such as kidney transplantation, these groups face barriers and ...

Apr 1, 2022 What does the liver do?

How much do you know about your liver? Like most people, the answer is probably only a little. Let’s start with some basic facts as we learn more about the body’s largest internal organ. Basic facts about the liver Location : Just under your ribcage on the ...

Mar 22, 2022 Diabetes Alert Day 2022 | The Transplant Institute at Methodist Dallas

Every year The Transplant Institute at Methodist Dallas treat patients with kidney disease, often associated with diabetes; so every year on the fourth Tuesday of March, our focus is dedicated to the American Diabetes Association’s Diabetes Alert Day. This ...

Mar 10, 2022 World Kidney Day 2022 | The Transplant Institute at Methodist Dallas

The Transplant Institute at Methodist Dallas has been doing kidney transplants for nearly four decades. To date, we have performed over 2,600 kidney transplants with outcomes that meet or exceed national averages. As one of the leading kidney transplant ...