CHICAGO (CBS) -- For the first time, surgeons at Northwestern Medicine have completed a kidney transplant during which the patient was awake the whole time. The surgery took place back on May 24. The ...

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Kidney transplants are not uncommon — the kidney is actually the most frequently transplanted organ in the U.S. — but a Chicago man recently received his in a highly unusual way. John Nicholas, 28, ...

John Nicholas received the kidney donation from a childhood friend after his kidneys failed for a medically undetermined reason Jose M. Osorio/Northwestern Medicine A 28-year-old man from Chicago has ...

CHICAGO (CBS) — A 74-year-old Zion man is celebrating a new lease on life after he underwent a kidney transplant while he was still awake. Harry Stackhouse, a father of six and grandfather to 17, said ...

In May, Northwestern Medicine transplant surgeons gave 28-year-old Chicagoan John Nicholas a new kidney. He was awake for the whole procedure. He felt no pain, Northwestern said in a press release, ...

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After previously downplaying controversy over his appearance, former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas condemned a far-right suburban group whose fundraiser he spoke at this summer. In a ...