For 65-year-old Jim Palmer, donating blood comes naturally. So when the opportunity came to donate just before the 2026 New Year began, the Riverside resident jumped at the chance — and on Wednesday, ...

UW Health has launched a new Living Donor Initiative aimed at expanding living organ donation by improving patient support, increasing education efforts and strengthening long-term follow-up care for ...

The decision to choose a sperm donor isn’t always an easy one, but would-be parents have more freedom than ever when making choices about the future of their child and sperm donor. Choosing a donor is ...

If a couple cannot get pregnant using the woman's own eggs for in vitro fertilization, they may want to consider using donor eggs. Donor eggs -- and sometimes donor embryos -- allow an infertile woman ...

The donor family can include: Egg, sperm, or embryo donor (and their family). Parent (or prospective parent). Donor-conceived person (and their family). Donor conception has become very common over ...

After struggling with serious health problems since childhood, learning earlier this year that he needs a kidney transplant was a blow he wasn’t prepared for. “I cried. My mom and I cried our eyes out ...

Transplant experts are seeing a spike in people revoking organ donor registrations, their confidence shaken by reports that organs were nearly retrieved from a Kentucky man mistakenly declared dead.

When you give a donor-advised fund (DAF), you are setting your recipient up with financial resources to make a lasting charitable impact.

As financial advisors, we’ve often recommended that clients set up donor-advised funds. We know the drill: Contribute to the fund and get an immediate tax deduction. But it often takes time for the ...

When Peter Ellenstein goes out to dinner with his children, who range in age from 17 to 30, the meals are raucous, and there is always a lot of catching up to do — especially because no one in the ...