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A decade after donating her kidney to her brother in a life-saving surgery, Melissa Burgess will run the 129th Boston Marathon in support of Tufts Medical Center.

Sebastian is back to doing what he loves thanks to his sister’s lifesaving kidney donation.

Learn how one Tufts Medicine kidney transplant patient continues to make a difference as a volunteer services manager, highlighting the life-changing impact of compassionate care, specialized treatments and philanthropy.

Connor Anderson shares his journey from living kidney donor at Tufts Medical Center to Boston Marathon runner.

Just months after receiving a heart transplant, Lenny Buisson returns to Tufts Medical Center regularly to support other heart failure patients and their families.

Michael is living his life to the fullest after undergoing a liver transplant at Tufts Medical Center. Learn how transplantation has given him the gift of time after decades of liver disease.

Great-grandmother Helen's heart transplant gives her more time with the people she loves.

John Previti was in pre-op on the day of his kidney transplant when he mentioned that he hoped his sister Denise D’Amelio would soon have a donor as well. Minutes later, in a twist that surprised everyone, John learned his sister was at the Medical Center to receive her kidney transplant that very day.

Tufts Medical Center’s Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation Program brings relief after a lifetime of exhaustion and illness.

Karen Dolan, a triathlete and a self-described exercise fanatic knew something wasn't right. She experienced shortness of breath and fatigue.

After hearing a news story about a young person who donated a kidney to someone in need, the idea of organ donation started swirling around in Jake’s head. Almost 10 years later, that idea turned into reality.

Mac and his team at Tufts MC refused to let cardiomyopathy take his life, so they did all they could to get him to a heart transplant.

With the convenience of the Neely House and the comfort and expertise of the state-of-the-art Neely Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Unit and its world-class physicians, a Maine family comes to Tufts Medical Center when their daughter needs a bone marrow transplant.

A team of doctors at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, MA collaborated to care for sickle cell disease patient Michaela and her sister, Danisha, who donated her bone marrow.

After learning of a chronic kidney disease, Colleen turned to the team at Tufts MC to find a kidney donor and found a match in her teammate and now life partner.

Albert Plummer received the first heart transplant at Tufts Medical Center (Tufts MC), giving him 11 more years with his family doing the things he loved. He left a lasting legacy on the Tufts Medical Center CardioVascular Center.

There was only one thing that was more important to Bob than receiving a kidney transplant. Seeing his son graduate. Tufts Medical Center's Kidney Transplant team made both happen.

I am a family member of a Tufts Medical Center patient. My husband was brought to Tufts as a result of his declining health due to heart failure. The care he received at Tufts MC enabled him to recover from a serious, and at times critical, condition to a point that he is able to have a good quality of life as he awaits a heart transplant.