FILKE - Pig kidney transplant recipient Towana Looney sits with transplant surgeon Dr. Jayme Locke on Dec. 10, 2024, at NYU Langone Health in New York. (AP Photo/Shelby Lum, File) ...

ALABAMA - Doctors have had to remove the pig kidney implanted in an American woman after her body rejected it, but her four months living with the animal's organ set a record, the hospital that ...

The kidneys regulate the water in the body. Alcohol can dehydrate the body, which therefore changes how the kidneys work. Too much alcohol can also raise blood pressure, which damages the kidneys.

At just 5 years old, Lyndzi was diagnosed with kidney disease and her condition deteriorated fast. A couple days in the hospital turned into more than three months. Lyndzi said it was hard to ...

For Interwell Health, the hard part came after the ink dried on a three-way merger that formed the kidney care company. The company came together after Interwell, Cricket Health and Fresenius ...

Except this time, instead of preparing a game plan for an opponent, he will make the trip to Ascension St. Vincent Hospital to undergo a life-saving kidney transplant. There are nerves ...

Lipid profiling, blood pressure monitoring, and kidney damage assessments are also critical. In obese patients, additional tests, such as transaminases and color Doppler ultrasound of the supra-aortic ...

Eleanor Rivera receives funding from the National Institutes of Health. She is affiliated with the National Kidney Foundation and the Department of Veterans Affairs. For a disease afflicting 35.5 ...

(WXYZ) — March is National Kidney Month, a time to highlight kidney disease and the efforts to prevent and manage it. More than 35 million Americans suffer from ...

Mount Pleasant residents Jim Westerhold and Farin Doran rang the transplant bell at MUSC this month, standing alongside the individuals they each donated one of their kidneys to. Ringing the ...