A soldier who spent years helping to save lives, working as an Army medic, is speaking out and urging people to consider becoming an organ donor.

This year, the event is focusing on the need for organ, eye and issue donation education, especially for teenagers getting their first driver’s license.

According to Gift of Life Michigan, someone registered to be an organ donor can save up to eight lives and potentially heal more than 100.

With over 100,000 people waiting for a life-saving transplant, it is crucial to dispel the myths and provide accurate information about the benefits of organ donation.

Of all the surgeons in the United States, only a fraction are transplant surgeons.

A life-changing gift deserves life-changing care, which is exactly what one hospital is providing for living organ donors.

Robotic surgery has transformed the way surgery is performed. While the basic process of kidney transplant surgery hasn’t changed in more than 60 years, robotic technology now allows transplant surgeons to do complex procedures in a minimally invasive way.

Living donor transplants like Micah's not only benefit the recipient but also help others on the waiting list.

Attendees at the Aug. 2 event will be able to tour the Ann Arbor facility and talk with those impacted by donations.

An Indiana woman was set to be married in four days when she got a call that a lifesaving transplant was available.

A Detroit nurse is in need of a life-saving kidney transplant. It turns out, she didn’t need to look far to get it.

More than one in three women is living with some form of cardiovascular disease.

There are 2,500 people in Michigan waiting on an organ transplant, including more than 100 who need a new heart. Monday is National Organ Donor Day.

A couple in Roseville now shares a bond that’s even deeper than marriage.

If someone has ever asked you if you wanted to be an organ donor, what was your initial feeling or thought?

GROSSE POINTE WOODS, Mich. – Living donor organ transplants of the kidney and liver have really changed the landscape of organ donation. Instead of having to wait until an organ becomes available and getting sicker and sicker with each passing day, having a living donor allows you to bypass that. The only treatment is to end up having a liver transplant. In time his condition worsened and he was placed on a liver transplant list. One year ago on Nov. 25, 2019 during a 10 hour surgery, Henry Ford Transplant Institute surgeon, Dr. Atsushi Yoshida, a specialist in Transplant Surgery completed the living donor transplant.

The gift of life is an incredible thing, and one local man is about to find out firsthand. He’s sick and a transplant is the only thing that could save his life. “But it comes down to, you know, life choices and things that I’ve done with my life, you know? She went about this in doing all her research herself.”“Of course a little bit nervous but honestly there is a lot of excitement and hope,” said Julia. Now he’s getting ready for a life changing surgery that will save his life all thanks to his sister.

Natisha Fudge said shes the reason her husband contracted COVID-19, and now shes giving him a kidney to save his life as he deals with complications from the virus. Fudge is a former Certified Nursing Assistant who has seen her fair share of patients -- especially amid the coronavirus pandemic. They initially told us that he was in stage three kidney disease and now were dealing with seizures and the COVID, Natisha Fudge said. Aside from giving her husband the virus, the mother of three is giving him a kidney as well. When I started doing it, I realized the weight started coming off, Fudge said.