Kidney Disease

Chronic kidney disease with no clear cause is killing young people who do physical labor in Central America at an alarming rate. A UT Health San Antonio researcher has spent a decade looking for answers, and this summer, he'll study similar workers in San Antonio to see if clues he uncovers here can save lives there.

Teen-aged siblings who were both on a kidney transplant list in San Antonio received organs from the same donor on the same day. John Ben Shepperd is 18.…