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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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...