A Texas man who got a new lease on life after receiving a kidney transplant decided to make his days count by moving up his wedding to his fiancée and holding the nuptials at the hospital chapel just ...

Dialysis must be used, or kidney transplantation is required, when the kidneys cannot filter blood any longer. The kidneys remove excess waste substances and water from the blood so they can leave ...

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 ...

An Alabama woman is back on dialysis after receiving a groundbreaking pig kidney transplant that her body later rejected. When Towana Looney completed her surgery in November, it was considered a ...

It involves travelling logistics to the dialysis centre, at least 4 hours on the machine, a process that wears out many kidney patients. Jotham’s plans for kidney transplant began as soon as he ...

U.S. researchers are about to test if livers from gene-edited pigs could treat people with sudden liver failure — not with a transplant but temporarily attached outside the body ...

chief of surgical transplantation at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Doctors have experimented with liver dialysis and medicines to treat people with acute liver failure, said Vagefi, who wasn’t ...

Among patients on hemodialysis, those who developed gout were 6% less likely to be wait-listed for a kidney transplant than ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Hemodialysis & Peritoneal Dialysis Market (2025 Edition): Analysis By Product (Machines, Dialyzers, Dialysis Solutions, and Catheters ...

For people with end-stage kidney disease, treatment options include hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis and kidney transplantation. Second, suitable patients should consider peritoneal dialysis ...