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

Our bodies can function perfectly fine with one kidney, whereas the liver can grow back (doctors only take out a piece for transplantation). While there are some short-term risks—as with any ...

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

A pig kidney kept an Alabama woman alive for five months - longer than anyone ever before. Doctors aren't sure yet why it suddenly stopped.

Thousands of patients on the list die each year, and thousands more come off the list because their health has worsened to ...

Over nearly 5 years of follow-up, kidney transplant recipients exposed to hot temperatures also had a 30% higher risk for a ...

Among 20 patients who got the kidney and cell transplants, 15 of them, including Wiederhoeft and Okey, were able to stop ...

It can be unusual for a husband and wife to be a transplant match because several factors are required, including blood and ...

A Bellingham woman is celebrating 50 years since she underwent a kidney transplant in 1975, which was a relatively new ...

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 ...