Deen Vetterli, founder and CEO of the National Kidney Foundation of Utah and Idaho and director of the Utah Kidney Foundation ...

While there are some ESRD patients who are too old for surgery or too sick to be helped, the majority of ESRD patients can easily extend their lifespan with a donated kidney. Our best estimates show ...

Scientists developed a way to freeze a large mammal’s kidney, which could ease organ shortages in the future. First, they had ...

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 ...

For the first time, surgeons have successfully performed a remarkable new heart transplant in which the donor organ never ...

An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed and is back on dialysis.

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

becoming only the third person to receive a kidney from a gene-edited pig while alive. She left the hospital 11 days after surgery at NYU Langone Transplant Institute, staying at an apartment near ...

Vicki Haggen is one of the world’s longest-surviving kidney transplant patients after her sister donated one of her kidneys ...

It can be unusual for a husband and wife to be a transplant match because several factors are required, including blood and ...

but no transplant lasted longer than two months and patients who were severely ill before the surgery died. A New Hampshire man who received a pig kidney in January is doing well. “We did the ...