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

Scientists developed a way to freeze a large mammal’s kidney, which could ease organ shortages in the future. First, they had ...

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 ...

The world's longest-lasting pig organ transplant has failed, doctors announced Friday. Towana Looney, 53, of Gadsden, Ala., had her pig kidney removed on April 4, after her body rejected the ...

The device offers a comprehensive, portable solution from end-to-end, allowing transplant teams to continuously perfuse the kidney and monitor key perfusion metrics in real-time through a mobile ...

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 ...

Mukhaizeem KUWAIT, April 24 (KUNA) -- Kuwaiti doctors continue to prove their high professional competence and consisten ...

Covenant Health, with Texas Tech Physicians, are offering the only kidney transplant surgery program in the region. The first has already proven successful.

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Texas Tech Physicians and Covenant Health are working together to bring back kidney transplant surgeries. Transplant surgeon Dr. Lyndsey Biondi performed the first kidney ...

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

But life isn’t the same one year after receiving a life-saving kidney transplant. A daily regimen of 16 anti-rejection and immunosuppressant medicines and supplements. No more sushi because that ...