Rachel Higginbotham realized that something was wrong with her friend and fellow churchgoer, Billy Massie, after noticing he “didn’t look well.”

April is National Donate Life Month, a time set aside to recognize organ donors and the people whose lives have been changed by a transplant.

KSAT Community is hosting a town hall to address the trend of people opting out of organ donation, what it could mean for patients and families waiting for transplants and how to separate facts from misinformation.

Zach Baza is a pretty laid back 16-year-old, who likes hanging out with his friends, reading, and swimming. They’re simple pleasures his mom can’t believe he’s been able to enjoy.

KSAT followed Dr. Kelley Hitchman's journey as she made her way to the summit and back, all for a personal and global cause. She donated a kidney in 2021 and wants to show people that organ donors can do everything other people can do, if not more.

Watch the KSAT town hall and get the facts about organ donation, register to be an organ donor.

Alyssa Smith Riggin received the first living-donor liver transplant in the US in 1989.

The South Texas Blood and Tissue co-hosted an event for National Multiethnic Donor Awareness Month at the donor pavilion Thursday morning.

KSAT Community will host a phone bank for the Texas Organ Sharing Alliance on September 15

A Texas veteran who faced an uphill when looking for coverage for his living donor through the Veterans Choice Program led the effort to change a system flaw to help others.

Stephania Jimenez will speak with local experts about organ donation during National Donate Life Month.

A Devine woman and her family finally met the baby whose life she had a part in saving by becoming a living organ donor.

“I’m ready, I’m ready to be blessed.”This summer will mark her fifth year on the organ transplant waitlist. According to Thomas, there’s been a big push to register people to become living donors by University Health Transplant Center. In 2018, 1,107 people registered with University Health for the program, which was an increase from the 764 people who signed up in 2017. Additionally, University health officials said, a person registering for the program does not always mean that they become donors. Also on KSAT:Hesitating to get on organ donor list?

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