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

Life for Towana Looney hasn’t been easy. After giving her mother one of her kidneys in 1999, the Alabama woman thought the ...

An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed and is back on dialysis.

Vicki Haggen is one of the world’s longest-surviving kidney transplant patients after her sister donated one of her kidneys ...

The longest-living recipient of a genetically engineered pig kidney has had the organ removed after experiencing acute organ rejection, surgeons at New York City-based NYU Langone told The New York ...

"Not only did I help my husband, but I helped a whole other family." Kidney exchange program helps several families get a fresh start on life.

In this video, an expert discusses study results presented at the American College of Cardiology Scientific Session that assessed sex-based differences observed in end-stage kidney disease after heart ...

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 ...

When Towana Looney completed her surgery in November, it was considered a groundbreaking medical feat for alternative organ ...

Laura Epstein’s new company is delivering lifesaving kidneys and hearts to those most in need faster than ever.

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

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