CHICAGO (CBS) — A 74-year-old Zion man is celebrating a new lease on life after he underwent a kidney transplant while he was still awake. Harry Stackhouse, a father of six and grandfather to 17 ...

It seemed like a “no-brainer,” Nicholas said about participating in Northwestern’s first awake kidney transplant. He said his recovery has gone “extremely well” and is satisfied with his ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A Zion man is the second to recover from an awake kidney transplant at Northwestern Medicine. ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24/7. Click here to watch. Harry Stackhouse was ...

CHICAGO, Ill. (Ivanhoe Newswire) - There are more than 780,000 people living with kidney disease. On average, 25,000 people will receive a transplant each year, but 90,000 people are still on the ...

The recipient, 74-year-old Harry Stackhouse, is the second patient at the Chicago-based system to undergo an awake kidney transplant. Instead of using general anesthesia, clinicians injected a ...

On July 15, Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine performed its second-ever awake kidney transplant. The patient was a 74-year-old man, who left the hospital after 36 hours. He shared his experience in ...

CHICAGO, Ill. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- There are more than 780,000 people living with kidney disease. On average, 25,000 people will receive a transplant each year. But 90,000 people are still on the ...

But one case involving a Chicago man with leukemia shows it can help the donor too—in profound ways. Woman saves Chicago man's life with stem cell transplant, and she says he saved her life too ...

Black kidney transplant patients have moved up on the surgery waitlist in Illinois after the factor of race was removed from eGFR blood test. CHICAGO -- There is new hope for thousands of African ...

CHICAGO, Ill. (Ivanhoe Newswire) - There are more than 780,000 people living with kidney disease. On average, 25,000 people will receive a transplant each year. But 90,000 people are still on the ...