This excerpt comes from the forthcoming book “Poisoning the Well: How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America,” which details how a set of toxic compounds have devastated entire ...

Itching sometimes occurs with bumps, dry skin, hives ... People with kidney failure need dialysis or a transplant to maintain kidney function. Hypothyroidism is an underactive thyroid, the ...

Investigators studied cancer incidence, survival outcomes, and graft function among a multicenter cohort of kidney transplant recipients.

For a person diagnosed with kidney failure, a transplant gives a new lease of life. However, a study published in the Bhutan Health Journal reveals that many kidney transplant recipients in the ...

This was the longest a human had survived with a pig kidney transplant. She has returned to dialysis and awaits future transplant possibilities. Towana Looney lived for more than four months with ...

Dr Robert Montgomery, who performed the transplant, said removal of the kidney, also called an “explant”, is not a step backward in the field of xenotransplantation (the use of animal organs ...

The JCI CCPC accreditation signifies that St. Luke’s Kidney Transplant Program meets the highest international standards. JCI, recognized globally for its rigorous evaluation processes ...

An Alabama woman is back on dialysis after receiving a groundbreaking pig kidney transplant that her body later rejected. When Towana Looney completed her surgery in November, it was considered a ...

But life isn’t the same one year after receiving a life-saving kidney transplant. A daily regimen of 16 anti-rejection and immunosuppressant medicines and supplements. No more sushi because that ...