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The Trump administration has reportedly disrupted over 100 clinical trials. Science News spoke to researchers about the impacts on four of them.
A patient with end-stage kidney disease successfully received a genetically engineered porcine kidney and was released from ...
Recipients of kidney transplants in high heat index settings show higher rates of adverse kidney outcomes than transplant ...
Thousands of patients on the list die each year, and thousands more come off the list because their health has worsened to ...
At any given time, about 100,000 people in the U.S. are waiting to become kidney transplant recipients. Roughly one-fifth of ...
Scientists developed a way to freeze a large mammal’s kidney, which could ease organ shortages in the future. First, they had ...
Among 20 patients who got the kidney and cell transplants, 15 of them, including Wiederhoeft and Okey, were able to stop ...
Among patients on hemodialysis, those who developed gout were 6% less likely to be wait-listed for a kidney transplant than ...
For the first time, surgeons have successfully performed a remarkable new heart transplant in which the donor organ never ...
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 ...
The results suggest that kidney pumping may be an effective strategy to mitigate the risk of graft failure. Kidney pumping of both mate kidneys with a cold ischemia time greater than 12 hours “should ...
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 ...