MONDAY, Feb. 10, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully performed the fourth ...

It was the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States, and the first of three that will be done at Mass General as ...

Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital transplanted a pig kidney into a 66-year-old patient with end-stage kidney disease.

decided to operate on a patient with less-severe end-stage kidney disease. While Slayman had been on dialysis for eight years and had had a kidney transplant and heart disease, Andrews had only ...

A race-based method for calculating kidney function resulted in many Black patients being lower on the transplant waitlist ...

A team at Massachusetts General Hospital led by Harvard Medical School physician-scientists has for the second time ...

For the second time, Massachusetts General Hospital has transplanted a genetically edited pig kidney into a human.

The first clinical trials using organs from genetically modified pigs offer hope to patients with kidney failure, who face a ...

The surgery comes at a turning point in the quest to tell if animal-to-human transplants could help ease the shortage of ...

More than 90% of the adult population in the U.S. is or has been infected with Epstein Barr virus (EBV). EBV is a highly contagious member of the herpes virus family, best known for causing infectious ...

The recipient was Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old New Hampshire resident who had end-stage kidney disease and was on dialysis for ...

The research offers hope to tens of thousands of patients with kidney failure who are on a long waiting list for an organ ...