The Verge:
The study, published in _The New England Journal of Medicine, looked at the survival rates for 1,025 patients receiving incompatible kidneys from live donors, comparing them with other kidney transplant patients. After eight years, 76.5 percent of the individuals receiving incompatible kidneys from live donors were still alive — a better outlook than for patients who stayed on the waiting list or got an incompatible kidney from a deceased donor (62.9 percent survival rate), or for patients who never received a transplant at all (43.9 percent). An accompanying editorial in the New England journal described the findings as "revolutionary."
Being the recipient of a kidney transplant in 2004 and knowing full well that it won't last my entire life, this is great news. Nobody should have to die when all of us are capable of donating organs.
If you haven't signed your donor card, make sure to do so.