Surgeons at Northwestern Medicine performed a kidney transplant on an awake patient, marking a first for the Chicago-based healthcare system. The patient, 28-year-old John Nicholas of Chicago, felt no ...

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- A Chicago man was the first patient at Northwestern Medicine to receive a kidney transplant that he was awake for. John Nicholas, 28, had been experiencing kidney issues for over a ...

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TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - Kidney shortages across the U.S. are causing those in need of a new kidney to wait years on a waitlist as their condition worsens, sometimes fatally. Roughly 90,000 people in the ...