A Black woman who had the longest stint with a pig kidney transplant must return to dialysis after her body rejected the ...

For a person diagnosed with kidney ... transplant recipients. Many find themselves unemployed, physically weak, and emotionally isolated after surgery. This disconnect must be addressed. Reintegration ...

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 ...

At the same time, her immune system was reactivating after the transplant. Those factors may have combined to damage the new ...

TUESDAY, April 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Doctors have removed a genetically modified pig's kidney from an Alabama woman after her body ... who performed the transplant, said removal of the ...

A kidney transplant patient has died in Ohio after receiving an organ infected with rabies. The recipient received care in Lucas County, Ohio, in December 2024, the Toledo-Lucas County Health ...

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 ...

Instead, he opted to undergo a transplant using the bio-engineered porcine kidney on Jan. 25 and was released from the hospital on Feb. 1. "As soon as I woke up after the surgery, the cloud of ...

This is still progress in animal-to-human transplants, doctors say TUESDAY, April (HealthDay News) — Doctors have removed a ...