A Ceremony of Thanksgiving was held in memory of Anatomical Donors who gave their bodies to UMMC so the next generation of ...

PANJWANI: I’m Haya Panjwani. On this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauren Neergaard and Shelby Lum, ...

Improvements in imaging and device engineering have led to the rapid development of advanced, minimally invasive techniques in urologic care. While imaging advances have had a major effect in the ...

An Alabama woman living with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had it removed after her body began to reject it. Towana Looney from Gadsden, Ala., returned home following her April 4 surgery at ...

Towana Looney, 53, of Gadsden, Ala., had her pig kidney removed on April 4, after her body rejected the genetically modified organ, according to NYU Langone Health in New York. The pig organ ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it and is back on dialysis, doctors announced Friday ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it and is back on dialysis, doctors announced Friday – a ...

Towana Looney lived with the kidney longer than any other transplant patient had tolerated an organ from a genetically modified animal. By Roni Caryn Rabin Surgeons removed a genetically ...

The body needs water to function correctly, but drinking too much too fast can have serious health consequences. The kidneys can only remove 0.8 to 1.0 liters (L) of water per hour, and a very ...

New UCLA research conducted using mouse models and human genetic data has uncovered a critical factor that determines how much scarring occurs following kidney ... the body senses that the scar ...

Your body normally eliminates ammonia through urine ... Without prompt treatment, high ammonia levels can lead to death. Chronic kidney disease: Late-stage kidney disease prevents these organs from ...

A proportion of these cells then undergo a mesenchyme-to-epithelial transition to form the renal vesicle, which further develops into the comma-shaped and then the S-shaped body. Finally ...