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Duane Richard's family and Jacob Ash's family are now two families connected by one heart -- the one Jake donated to Duane when Jake passed away last fall. And now, the two families have met in person.

Duane Richards of Corbett, OR received a heart transplant from Oregon Health & Sciences University (OHSU) last year. Now, he has also had the privilege to meet the family of the donor, Jacob Ash, who saved his life.

Payton Idrogo is a young woman with a cause -- she's running for Miss Oregon while raising awareness about organ, eye, and tissue donation.

For 26 years and ticking, Richard has been living on borrowed time, and the heart of a 19-year-old Aloha, Ore. girl.

On Thursday, April 2, Good Shepherd Health Care System was awarded the Hope Award from Pacific Northwest Transplant Bank (PNTB) for navigating a difficult situation to facilitate the gift of life.

A single donor can save up to 8 lives. But you don't have to die to donate life. But you need to do more than register as an living organ donor.

Marci McIntyre and Ray Hacker met in the 4th grade, but little did they know that one day Ray would giving Marci a kidney.

After a steep decline amid the Coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic, organ transplants are starting to pick back up in Oregon. Just this week, OHSU performed their first living kidney transplant since the pandemic began. KPTV's Haley Rush speaks with Aimee...

April is National Donate Life Month and is usually packed with special events and campaigns to promote organ, eye, and tissue donor registrations. COVID-19 has brought those events and campaigns to a halt and has triggered a huge decline in...

Carolyn Petersen endured four years of kidney failure, dialysis, and all of the weakness that brought with it. But after a life-saving kidney transplant in 2014, she's gotten back her health, her strength, and is representing the Pacific Northwest at...