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2026
September
21,
2026
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09:01 AM
America/Chicago
As he dealt with severe kidney disease, 17-year-old Dylan Banks faced a choice: Continue with dialysis or try for a kidney transplant.Dylan had already undergone more than a year of dialysis, a filtering process that removed waste and extra fluids …
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2025
May
30,
2025
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13:46 PM
America/Chicago
Each year, Cook Children’s flies a flag and lights up our Fort Worth Medical Center in blue and green to raise awareness for organ donation.Cook Children’s partners with the organ procurement organization LifeGift. On April 24, representatives from …
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2017
September
15,
2017
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10:23 AM
America/Chicago
Selena Gomez posted a photo on her Instagram to let her fans know the reason why she has been “laying low” during the summer. She received a kidney transplant from her best friend, actress Francia Raisa.
“So I found out I needed …
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2015
April
16,
2015
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14:26 PM
America/Chicago
Cook Children’s currently has 12 patients waiting for a kidney.
Thanks to a gracious act of kindness from one teenager in Arizona, a 1 year old from Joshua, Texas is no longer on that list.
Following a head injury while …
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