"Not only did I help my husband, but I helped a whole other family." Kidney exchange program helps several families get a fresh start on life.

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

The incredibly rare type of surgery has been performed fewer than 80 times in the last two decades in the country. Cestoni ...

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

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 ...

More than 100,000 people are on the U.S. transplant list, most who need a kidney, and thousands die waiting. 3 Her body began rejecting the pig kidney after a record 130 days.

An Alabama woman who received a pig kidney transplant had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it.

Surgeons at NYU Langone Health in New York City had to remove a genetically modified pig kidney from Towana Looney, 53, of ...

Kidney transplant recipients with longer exposure to daily average temperatures of at least 86°F were more likely to ...