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, ...

When your doctor removes your bladder, they will create another way for pee to leave the body, known as urinary diversion. Catheters may be used to drain pee through the colon. Or an opening in ...

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 ...

This artery plays a critical role in the circulatory system by ensuring that organs in the lower body get ... celiac trunk or renal arteries, but these are usually harmless and don't affect health.

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 ...