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Robot Lets Sick Teen Attend High School Virtually

By Mara GayFeb 17th 2011 – 1:53PM
CNN

CNN

Lyndon Baty is too sick to set foot in the classroom, but the Texas teen says he's found the next best thing: a robot that allows him to attend high school virtually. Lyndon, 15, suffers from kidney disease and has been home-bound since last year, when his body rejected a transplant. But now, a robot is helping him keep...

Chain of Kidney Transplants Gives 14 Patients New Life

By Tamara LytleJun 15th 2010 – 8:06PM

WASHINGTON (June 15) -- Members of a human "domino chain" met for the first time today, representing most of the 28 organ donors and patients involved in a world-record series of linked kidney transplants. Many of the patients were ailing from kidney disease but had been unable to find a match in a kidney donated by...

Background on kidney disease

Nephropathy means damage to or disease of a kidney. Nephrosis is non-inflammatory nephropathy. Nephritis is inflammatory kidney disease.

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