Recipients of kidney transplants in high heat index settings show higher rates of adverse kidney outcomes than transplant ...

Covenant Health announced Monday the hospital is proud to once again bring critically necessary services back to West Texas ...

A genetically engineered pig kidney helped Towana Looney enjoy 130 days without the need for dialysis before the organ was ...

A patient with end-stage kidney disease successfully received a genetically engineered porcine kidney and was released from ...

This was the longest a human had survived with a pig kidney transplant. She has returned to dialysis and awaits future transplant possibilities. Towana Looney lived for more than four months with ...

One of every three donated kidneys never gets transplanted. CBS News explores why a growing number are being discarded.

At 3 a.m. the team started thawing the kidney, a process that took two hours. At 9 a.m., Dr. Alban Longchamp and Dr. Tatsuo Kawai, transplant surgeons at Mass General, opened the pig’s abdomen ...

Life for Towana Looney hasn’t been easy. After giving her mother one of her kidneys in 1999, the Alabama woman thought the ...

Looney, a 53-year-old-woman from Alabama, had been on dialysis for nine years before she received the pig kidney transplant in late November, becoming only the third person to receive a kidney ...