Megan Bosack needed her kidney removed. Evelyn Bautista needed a new one. Their needs made for a perfect match. Bosack, 21, ...

More than 100,000 people nationwide, including 5,000 in the Philadelphia area, are waiting for organ donations, a reality ...

A physical therapist was shocked to learn that for her, some of her crucial organs had an expiration date. With proactive ...

Looney had the organ from her Nov. 25 transplant until early April. He and her doctors decided it would be less risky to remove the pig's kidney than to try saving it. "We did the safe thing ...

The transplant lasted a record 4 months and ... Looney was one of the two recipients of kidneys from pigs after the only kidney she had failed; she had donated her another kidney to her mother.

Surgeons at NYU Langone Health in New York City had to remove a genetically modified pig kidney from Towana Looney, 53, of ...

Towana Looney lived with the kidney longer than any other transplant patient had tolerated an organ from a genetically ...

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 ...

Surgeons at NYU Langone Health in New York City had to remove a genetically modified pig kidney from Towana Looney, 53, of Gadsden, Ala., because... The world's longest-lasting pig organ ...

A pig kidney kept an Alabama woman alive for five months - longer than anyone ever before. Doctors aren't sure yet why it ...

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 ...