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Kidney transplants seem so routine now. But the first one was like Lindbergh's flight across the ocean. -- Joseph Murray
Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure. -- Xavier Becerra
Kidney disease is a low-profile, unglamorous problem, a disease that disproportionately strikes minorities and the poor. Its celebrity spokesman is blue-collar comedian George Lopez, who received a kidney from his wife. -- Virginia Postrel
Kidney donors don't have to be close relatives of recipients, but they do need to have the right blood type. And kidneys from living donors tend to last many years longer than kidneys from deceased donors. -- Virginia Postrel
If (Declan) Kidney had gone for religion instead of teaching, he would have been Pope. -- George Hook
If laughter is the best medicine, I promise to continue to make you laugh as my wife and I work together with the National Kidney Foundation to save lives. -- George Lopez
In my home office, I built a custom sit-stand desk to which I connected a big, kidney shaped glass top which I got for cheap at Ikea. Kidney-shaped desk tops are, I think, the most efficient of all possible desk shapes. -- William Gurstelle
I'm a prime example of the way kidney disease strikes silently. -- Sean Elliott
Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status. -- Joe Murray
You can put a kidney in your body - and somewhere down the line, your body might reject it. -- Grizz Chapman
Organ donation is very personal to me. My mother, before her death, was on kidney dialysis for several years. -- John Perez
You know that family is going to be there for you no matter what. My dad gave me a freakin' kidney! -- Sarah Hyland
A patient healthy enough to undergo a kidney transplant might someday no longer need dialysis. That would free up a slot for a new patient. -- Sheri Fink
Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status. This spectacular success was a clear demonstration that organ transplantation could be life-saving. -- Joseph Murray
It was in 2003 that I realised there was no choice but to have dialysis treatment - by the time of the World Cup that year, I could barely walk. A year later, I finally had a kidney transplant. -- Jonah Lomu
Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease. Sometimes the stone, on passing, kills the patient, without waiting for the gout. -- Thomas Sydenham
I believe for some high-technology medicine, like transplants and kidney dialysis, age should be a consideration in the delivery of that technology. In a world of limited resources, we have a larger duty to a 10-year-old than to a 90-year-old. -- Richard Lamm
I had been living with dialysis for three years or so, and the new kidney felt like a reprieve, a new gift of life. I felt alive again and I guess that has had an effect on my use of colour. -- Peter Wright
My son John was just under a year old when I collapsed with a life-threatening kidney disease. The shame and guilt resulting from my unplanned pregnancy had continued to fester to the point that my toxic feelings literally poisoned my body. -- Mary Manin Morrissey
People saw me as being heroic, but I was no more heroic than I was with other injuries I had, like the lacerated kidney I suffered during the 1990 World Series. It's just that people haven't known anyone with a lacerated kidney, but everyone can relate to someone with cancer. -- Eric Davis
For diabetes in particular, we know there's a relationship between lack of glucose regulation and complications like blindness and kidney failure. So if you were diabetic and you knew that you could get your glucose in a tight, normal range just by adjusting your lifestyle, wouldn't that be great? -- Eric Topol
Living with a single kidney is almost exactly like living with two; the remaining kidney expands to take up the slack. (When kidneys fail, they generally fail together; barring trauma or cancer, there's not much advantage to a backup.) The main risk to the donor is the risk of any surgery. -- Virginia Postrel
I wonder what the most intelligent thing ever said was that started with the word 'dude.' 'Dude, these are isotopes.' 'Dude, we removed your kidney. You're gonna be fine.' 'Dude, I am so stoked to win this Nobel Prize. I just wanna thank Kevin, and Turtle, and all my homies.' -- Demetri Martin
When I was a child, I was unable to go to any type of sleepaway summer camp because of health issues. Once I learned about the Lopez Foundation, I knew I wanted to get involved, send kids with kidney disease away to camp so they can still experience overnight camp with medical needs at hand. -- Sarah Hyland
The brain is the most complicated organ in the universe. We have learned a lot about other human organs. We know how the heart pumps and how the kidney does what it does. To a certain degree, we have read the letters of the human genome. But the brain has 100 billion neurons. Each one of those has about 10,000 connections. -- Francis Collins
When I graduated from high school, I weighed 125 pounds because of wrestling. Suddenly, I realized I could eat whatever I wanted - plus, creatine was new at the time. I went from 125 to 175 pounds, working out like crazy. I was yoked. But I wasn't drinking enough fluids and ended up with a kidney stone - and 3 weeks of pure hell. -- Mike Vogel
In fact when you combine stem cell technology with the technology known as tissue engineering you can actually grow up entire organs, so as you suggest that sometime in the future you get in an auto accident and lose your kidney, we'd simply take a few skin cells and grow you up a new kidney. In fact this has already been done. -- Robert Lanza
I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef. -- Vince Cable
The battle against cancer has made me strong. It's like winning a war! When I was diagnosed, I was told by doctors my kidney, liver and other organs could fail. It was tough. I didn't know if I could save my life. But I was positive, and because of that, the doctor told me that I would be a man who would never have cancer. -- Yuvraj Singh
Altruism became the sole legitimate motivation for giving a kidney. And it is a partial - I say a partial failure. -- Sally Satel
The afternoon passed more slowly than a walnut-sized kidney stone -- Tom Robbins
He went to the hospital with bleeding kidney and me,I went dancing with my life -- George Chuvalo
Matching the right kidney to the right patient is one example of an algorithmic artificial intelligence. -- Hari Sreenivasan
I do not think it is selfish to want to donate a kidney "only" to family members. -- Mallory Ortberg
Adding kidney beans to his cottage cheese and pineapple was an act of bravery Dave had not intended. -- Theric Jepson
The Atlanta Hawks are a bunch of guys who would prefer to pass kidney stones than pass a basketball. -- Bob Weiss
I was a healthy young man, and I thought I was invincible before I was diagnosed with kidney disease. -- Sean Elliott
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When I lifted up the skin, a fat kidney worm dripping with gore raised its bald, blind head and glared at me. -- Steven Ramirez
Yes - I am usually overweight. I have had to be interested in diet because of being diabetic for 30 years and having kidney failure. -- Sue Townsend
Not wanting to give everyone in your life one of your kidneys is not the same thing as hoping they die of kidney failure. -- Mallory Ortberg
I shall not want Honor in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney And have talk with Coriolanus And other heroes of that kidney. -- T. S. Eliot
A plant-based diet is more likely to produce good health and to reduce sharply the risk of heart problems, cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis, gallstones, and kidney disease. -- T. Colin Campbell
Many physical illnesses are associated with depression and anxiety, including heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, Parkinson's disease, stroke, kidney disease, lung disease, dementia and cancer. -- Liz Miller
A naturopath once told me you should never take antibiotics except if you have pneumonia, a kidney infection or some other serious illness. That's my philosophy, too. -- Pamela Sue Martin
Take advantage of the gracious condescension of the elegant calf's kidney, multiply its metamorphoses: you can without giving it any offence, call it the chameleon of cuisine. -- Emmanuel des Essarts
Dedicated researchers seek better treatments and cures for diabetes, kidney disease, Alzheimer's and every form of cancer. But these scientists face an array of disincentives. We can do better. -- Michael Milken
If I would have listened to other people back in 2000 telling me I should have stopped playing basketball because of a kidney disease, I wouldn't have won a world championship. -- Alonzo Mourning
One must be reasonable in one's demands on life. For myself, all that I ask is: (1) accurate information; (2) coherent knowledge; (3) deep understanding; (4) infinite loving wisdom; (5) no more kidney stones, please. -- Edward Abbey
Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patients renal and cardiopulmonary status. This spectacular success was a clear demonstration that organ transplantation could be life-saving. -- Joseph Murray
I had severe asthma and kidney problems and would get 105-degree fevers. I actually almost had to go on dialysis for my kidneys. I was also in the hospital for pneumonia. -- Jessica Alba
Individuals with kidney disease who are able to obtain treatment early experience a higher quality of life and are able to maintain more of their day-to-day activities, including keeping their jobs. -- Xavier Becerra
I am in favor of an idea that's been around for a number of years, which is to reward people who are willing to give a kidney and save the life of a stranger. -- Sally Satel
I'd like people to know that you can head off kidney disease, maybe prevent a transplant or stop the disease from progressing after detection by doing a simple urine test in the doctor's office. -- Sean Elliott
African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans. -- Xavier Becerra
Hypertension is an important risk factor for kidney disease, but dietary sodium has other damaging effects on the kidneys. High salt intake drives the production of oxygen radicals, leading to oxidative stress in kidney tissue. -- Joel Fuhrman

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