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 ...

Recipients of kidney transplants in high heat index settings show higher rates of adverse kidney outcomes than transplant ...

Among 20 patients who got the kidney and cell transplants, 15 of them, including Wiederhoeft and Okey, were able to stop ...

Coast Guard veteran Calvin Jordan has been awarded a $3 million settlement from the U.S. government after a missed lab result ...

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 ...

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 ...

Looney, a 53-year-old-woman from Alabama, had been on dialysis for nine years before she received the pig kidney transplant in late November, becoming only the third person to receive a kidney ...

Mason Combs needed medication due to his kidney transplant, authorities said. Authorities said a missing 10-year-old boy who recently underwent a kidney transplant and needed medication has been ...