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An Atlanta couple’s dream cruise vacation took a scary turn when Tori Austin’s fiancée suffered a serious medical emergency on board the ship, NBC News reports. Austin told NBC News her fiancée, Stephen Johnson, was rushed to a private hospital in Progreso, Mexico, over a week ago in critical condition after medics aboard a cruise ship diagnosed him with pancreatitis,...

Aron Eisenberg, who played fan-favorite Ferengi character Nog on the ’90s series “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,” has died. He was 50. The actor is survived by his new wife, Malssa Longo, and two sons, Christopher Eisenberg and Nicholas Eisenberg. Longo announced on Facebook on Saturday morning that Eisenberg was hospitalized in critical condition, without elaborating. That night, she revealed...

Outside, hundreds gathered to watch Sen. Bernie Sanders demand that the owners of Hahnemann University Hospital put a halt to its impending closure. Inside the hospital, the reality was much different, resembling a “ghost town,” according to workers.

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders visited Hahnemann Hospital for a rally on Monday. He used the opportunity to push his Medicare for All plan, which has been the key to his campaign since his last run in 2016. NBC10’s Deanna Durante takes a look at how Hahnemann’s closure will impact care at other Philadelphia hospitals.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday revamping care for kidney disease so more people whose kidneys fail can have a chance at early transplants and home dialysis, and others don’t get that sick in the first place. Trump said his order was aimed at “making life better and longer for millions” by increasing the supply of donated kidneys,...

For more than 15 years, Tyler Baze did what he could to lose the three or so pounds that would allow him to ride racehorses: skip meals, run in sweat suits in the southern California heat and “flip,” the jockeys’ term for vomiting.

A drug that’s used to help control blood sugar in people with diabetes has now been shown to help prevent or slow kidney disease, which causes millions of deaths each year and requires hundreds of thousands of people to use dialysis to stay alive. Doctors say it’s hard to overstate the importance of this study, and what it means for...

Frank Adonis, an actor best known for his roles in Martin Scorsese films including “Goodfellas,” ”Raging Bull” and “Casino,” has died. He was 83. His wife, Denise, told TMZ and Fox News that he died Wednesday in Las Vegas after several years of illness, mostly from kidney problems. She said he’d been on dialysis and was on a ventilator for...

The movie “Christmas Vacation” is a holiday favorite. And now, there’s a real-life Clark Griswold in Wilmington, Massachusetts: 21-year-old Charles Fiore

The “Modern Family” star opened up about her hospital roller coaster over the last two years.

A Gurnee woman no longer needs dialysis thanks to her younger brother’s ultimate gift.

In the first statewide referendum on transgender rights, Massachusetts voters on Tuesday beat back a repeal attempt and reaffirmed a 2016 law extending nondiscrimination protections to transgender people, including their use of public bathrooms and locker rooms. Voters in 37 states considered an array of intriguing ballot measures Tuesday. Michigan voters made their state the first in the Midwest to...

As weeks turned into months, the seats of the small plane began to empty out. In the beginning, 15 passengers flew from Vieques to the Puerto Rican mainland — refugees from Hurricane Maria. The storm had ruined the only dialysis center on this tiny island, their home; without treatment, the kidney patients would die. But the thrice-weekly trips have taken...

More than six months after Hurricane Irma’s catastrophic rampage across the Caribbean and the southeastern United States, the number of deaths attributed to the storm increased to 129 — more than twice the amount reported at the end of the storm. It took years for Hurricane Katrina’s death toll to become fully known. That number is still debated today with...

As Tropical Storm Florence inundated the Carolinas on Friday, President Donald Trump circled back to his claim that the official death toll from a devastating storm a year earlier in Puerto Rico was inflated and said the number of dead seemed to rise from double digits to 3,000 “like magic.” Public health experts have estimated that nearly 3,000 perished because...

President Donald Trump denied the updated death toll in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria in a pair of tweets, just as Hurricane Florence was slated to make landfall on the U.S. East Coast. Close to 3,000 people died in Puerto Rico from the 2017 storm, according to an independent study commissioned by its government.

Even at 98, Charles Everett has no plans to slow down. The Air Force Veteran and father of two still lives alone and continues to do everything he can on his own, including administering his own dialysis treatments.

World War II veteran Charles Everett lives by himself, even administering his own lifesaving dialysis each day. On this Father’s Day he will celebrate with his daughter Beth.

Fifty-six-year-old Bill Murray of Wilmington died waiting for a kidney. Murray had spent the last five years receiving dialysis for chronic kidney disease. During those years, he advocated for kidney-disease awareness and the need for organ donation to help the tens of thousands of Americans waiting for a transplant.