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In this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum, who have been following the ...
A patient with end-stage kidney disease successfully received a genetically engineered porcine kidney and was released from ...
A Black woman who had the longest stint with a pig kidney transplant must return to dialysis after her body rejected the ...
Among 20 patients who got the kidney and cell transplants, 15 of them, including Wiederhoeft and Okey, were able to stop ...
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 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 ...
Among patients on hemodialysis, those who developed gout were 6% less likely to be wait-listed for a kidney transplant than ...