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People who volunteer to donate a kidney face an even lower risk of death from the operation than doctors have long thought. The study tracked 30 years of living kidney donations and found that by 2022, fewer than one of every 10,000 donors died within three months of surgery.
Thousands of people die each year waiting for an organ transplant.
With nearly 90,000 people on the U.S. list for a kidney transplant, finding a living donor not only shortens the yearslong wait; those organs also tend to survive longer than ones from deceased donors. I'm Haya Panjwani.