Listen to this article In the coming weeks, Carilion Clinic will learn whether it has the go-ahead from the state to launch a kidney transplant program at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital, a plan ...

At any given time, about 100,000 people in the U.S. are waiting to become kidney transplant recipients. Roughly one-fifth of ...

Bhutanese kidney transplant recipients are experiencing an alarmingly poor health-related quality of life (HRQoL), with ...

Thousands of patients on the list die each year, and thousands more come off the list because their health has worsened to ...

This is still progress in animal-to-human transplants, doctors say TUESDAY, April (HealthDay News) — Doctors have removed a ...

The longest-living recipient of a genetically engineered pig kidney has had the organ removed after experiencing acute organ rejection, surgeons at New York City-based NYU Langone told The New York ...

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

Scientists are genetically altering pigs so their organs are more humanlike to address a severe shortage of transplantable ...

Towana Looney lived with the kidney longer than any other transplant patient had tolerated an organ from a genetically ...

Surgeons at NYU Langone Health in New York City had to remove a genetically modified pig kidney from Towana Looney, 53, of Gadsden, Ala., because her body rejected the organ. She's back on dialysis.

This is in contrast to the strain variation seen for the transplantation of rat kidneys and hearts and indicates that rejection of xenograft skin involves a different or an additional immune ...