Kidney disease, leading to kidney failure, afflicts disproportionately more black people than white people. Thus, there is a ...

Over 1,000 genes may serve as possible treatment targets for individuals with kidney disease, according to a new study, published in Science, from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the ...

“U.S. citizens are eligible to receive health care coverage for kidney transplantation through Medicare; undocumented immigrants are not,” Gayathri Menon, MHS, a data analyst at the New York ...

Since the 1990s, a race-based method for assessing kidney function placed many Black patients lower on the transplant waitlist. However, thousands of these patients were moved up the list in ...

A Mass General Hospital surgical team has completed its second pig-to-human kidney transplant, less than a year after the ...

Kidney transplant is the ideal treatment for those with end stage kidney disease (ESKD) who are eligible for, and interested in, this potentially life-saving procedure. Yet traditionally, the path to ...

This achievement comes two years after the hospital initially announced its plans to commence kidney transplants in 2023.