Rebecca P. Winsett, RN, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis. Judy C. Martin, PhD, APRN, Associate Professor, College of ...

A kidney transplant patient has died in Ohio after receiving an organ infected with rabies. The recipient received care in Lucas County, Ohio, in December 2024, the Toledo-Lucas County Health ...

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 ...

Her body's eventual rejection of the transplant showed that the reliable use of animal organs remains a distant goal, but doctors took some hope since the pig kidney did its blood-filtering work ...

With efforts underway to expand access to the kidney transplant waiting list to more patients, including many with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD), new research underscored the corresponding ...

Recent study findings suggest that increased genetically predicted uromodulin levels are associated with a lower risk for upper urinary tract ... diabetes, kidney transplant longevity, and CKD ...

HAVERHILL — Folks from rural Tennessee to the Merrimack Valley are joining the cross-country crusade to save one man’s life — an Air Force veteran and a former Hillie suffering from kidney ...

Andrew Ross is the first pediatric patient at Texas Children's Hospital with active cancer to be considered for and undergo a kidney transplant. (Courtesy Ross family) Andrew Ross (left ...

Looney had the organ from her Nov. 25 transplant until early April. He and her doctors decided it would be less risky to remove the pig's kidney than to try saving it. "We did the safe thing ...

Read more. A new study says yes — if the wait list for a kidney transplant were expanded to improve access, fundamental changes to the current model would be required to reduce or even maintain ...