WASHINGTON (AP) — An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body ...

Renowned surgeon and humanitarian Dr. Robert Montgomery has revolutionized organ transplantation, expanding access and ...

This was the longest a human had survived with a pig kidney transplant ... reduce the risk of blood clots. Dr. Robert Montgomery, director of the NYU Langone Transplant Institute, who led ...

A Black woman who had the longest stint with a pig kidney transplant must return to dialysis after her body rejected the ...

In 2016, Looney was added to the kidney transplant list following her ... But there was a catch: Looney wouldn’t receive a human kidney. Instead, a pig’s kidney would be surgically implanted ...

It’s the longest a human has ever lived with ... treat an infection unrelated to the pig kidney,” Dr. Robert Montgomery, director of the NYU Langone Transplant Institute and chair of NYU ...

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.

TUESDAY, April 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Doctors have removed a genetically modified pig's kidney from an Alabama woman ...

In this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum, who have been following the ...

TUESDAY, April 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Doctors have removed a genetically modified pig's ... reported. Dr. Robert Montgomery, who performed the transplant, said removal of the kidney ...

The pig organ transplant, a landmark in the quest to develop alternatives to scarce human organs for transplantation, took place Nov. 25, 2024. The kidney was ... nine years," Dr. Robert ...