For the first time since 2016, I enjoyed time with friends and family without planning around dialysis treatments,” the patient said in a statement.

WASHINGTON — An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it and is back on dialysis, doctors announced Friday — a ...

This is still progress in animal-to-human transplants, doctors say TUESDAY, April 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Doctors have removed a genetically modified pig's kidney from an Alabama woman after ...

An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it and is back on dialysis, doctors announced Friday - a disappointment in ...

Scientists developed a way to freeze a large mammal’s kidney, which could ease organ shortages in the future. First, they had to see if their method would work in a pig. By Gina Kolata On the ...

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 ...

An Alabama woman living with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had it removed after her body began to reject it. Towana Looney from Gadsden, Ala., returned home following her April 4 surgery at ...