According to the National Institutes of Health, post-transplant diabetes mellitus, or PTDM, affects between 10% and 40% of ...

Doctors have had to remove the pig kidney implanted in an American woman after her body rejected it, but her four months ...

A genetically engineered pig kidney helped Towana Looney enjoy 130 days without the need for dialysis before the organ was ...

An official cause of death for actor Michelle Trachtenberg — best known for her roles in “Harriet the Spy,” “Gossip Girl,” ...

The "Gossip Girl" star's cause of death has been revealed to be complications of diabetes, and the manner of death has been ruled as natural.

Previous skepticism turns to optimism as the first clinical trials for transplantation with genetically edited pig kidneys ...

Without a donor match, she would die – but the complications she had developed made it more difficult to find one. When she heard about the option to try a pig kidney transplantation ...

Kidney transplant recipients have a 1-year survival ... Like any medical procedure, there is the potential for surgery-related complications like bleeding and infection, according to the Mayo ...