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 failure, a transplant gives a new lease of life. However, a study published in the Bhutan Health Journal reveals that many kidney transplant recipients in the ...

The transplant is part of a multi-patient study and the first done on three patients who were diagnosed with kidney failure and listed as needing a transplant, eGenesis officials said in an online ...

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 ...

In a statement, she thanked her doctors for “the opportunity to be part of this incredible research.” Towana Looney, a pig ...

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 ...

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

Each year at the highest heat quartile was linked to a 0.74% drop in eGFR for kidney transplant recipients. Recipients in the hottest vs. coldest quartile had a 30% higher risk for a major adverse ...

But life isn’t the same one year after receiving a life-saving kidney transplant. A daily regimen of 16 anti-rejection and immunosuppressant medicines and supplements. No more sushi because that ...

In 2016, Looney was added to the kidney transplant list following her pregnancy which forced her only kidney into overdrive, according to Health Day. After being diagnosed with kidney failure ...

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants – with a successful pig kidney transplant ... Getty Images/iStockphoto He said the pig liver ...