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Jerome Kersey's legacy lives on. The lives of eight children in a burn center in Texas were saved due to his tissue donation, and his cornea donation was used in groundbreaking eye surgery to improve the lives of four patients.

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Roxanne Loomis, a Eugene, Ore. nurse, has been on the kidney donor list for 4.5 years and is trying to reach potential donors through a highway billboard off of I-5.

Every year thousands of Americans lose their lives in tragedy, but because they chose to donate their organs, someone else had a chance to live. Oregon Health & Science University recently helped Dave Ausmus, a retired forklift operator from...

Last September, Holtz, 31, was diagnosed with stage 5 chronic kidney disease, which has now progressed to end-stage renal disease. These days, she’s on peritoneal dialysis; she wakes up every morning, unhooks her overnight dialysis machine, and heads...

Alissa Indra takes solace in knowing her son, Daniel, lives on in four other people. Daniel Indra was just 8 years old when he died in a tragic accident in 2014, but in death saved others through organ donation.

There are 120,000 people across the US waiting for lifesaving organs. Twenty-two of them a day, on average, die waiting. But a new app makes it a snap to become an organ donor.

Stephanie Holladay had never considered organ donation, but a newspaper article and a Google search led the Portland woman to give a life-saving gift to a Vancouver man she had never met.

A Portland woman who knows the agony of waiting for a heart transplant is working to sign up donors.

The family of a three-time kidney transplant recipient, Elizabeth Kemble, killed while crossing the street celebrated her life Sunday afternoon.