Covenant Health, with Texas Tech Physicians, are offering the only kidney transplant surgery program in the region. The first has already proven successful.

A patient with end-stage kidney disease successfully received a genetically engineered porcine kidney and was released from ...

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 ...

Compared with CABG, PCI is associated with decreased perioperative complication risks in patients with NSTE-ACS who are renal transplant recipients.

U.S. researchers are about to test if livers from gene-edited pigs could treat people with sudden liver failure — not with a ...

A daughter dedicated to community health care and her active father share their experience with living kidney donation, hoping to dispel myths in the community and encouraging more to share the gift ...

Among patients on hemodialysis, those who developed gout were 6% less likely to be wait-listed for a kidney transplant than ...

Looney, a 53-year-old-woman from Alabama, had been on dialysis for nine years before she received the pig kidney transplant in late November, becoming only the third person to receive a kidney ...

The world's longest-lasting pig organ transplant has failed ... and she was able to enjoy life without dialysis for the first time in nine years," Dr. Robert Montgomery of NYU Langone Health ...

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 ...

I have recently been advised to undergo peritoneal dialysis, which is done at home. However, my insurance provider has informed me that dialysis is only covered if done in a hospital, with a ...