On Friday, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital announced that a 66-year-old New Hampshire man had successfully received ...
It was the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States, and the first of three that will be done at Mass General as ...
Another patient has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney. Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old who lives in ...
Towana Looney of Alabama is 'going strong and feeling great' after a pig kidney transplant. No one has lived longer with an ...
MONDAY, Feb. 10, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully performed the fourth ...
The FDA will allow two biotechnology companies to run clinical trials: United Therapeutics and eGenesis. United Therapeutics ...
A New Hampshire man fought for the chance at a pig kidney transplant, spending months getting into good enough shape to be ...
The first clinical trials using organs from genetically modified pigs offer hope to patients with kidney failure, who face a ...
The recipient was Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old New Hampshire resident who had end-stage kidney disease and was on dialysis for ...
NEWSCENTER 5. ALL RIGHT, SARA, THANK YOU. FOR THE SECOND TIME, MASS GENERAL HAS TRANSPLANTED A KIDNEY FROM A PIG TO A PERSON. IT’S JUST THE FOURTH TIME THIS PROCEDURE HAS BEEN DONE ANYWHERE IN ...
So Andrews didn’t hesitate when his doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital asked whether he would consider an experimental transplant using a kidney from a donor pig. “All of a sudden ...