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

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

Kidneys are the most transplanted organ in Germany. According to the German Organ Transplantation Foundation, a total of ...

Biotech company eGenesis recently announced its implanted a pig kidney into a second human patient. This animal-to-human organ transplant ... the risk of organ rejection and cross-species infection.

The demand is correspondingly high: in 2023, 6,513 patients were on the waiting list for a kidney transplant. A serious risk for patients who have already received a transplant is rejection of the ...

MANHASSET, NY -- Doctors at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, New York performed a rare three-organ transplant procedure all in one. Our sister station WABC-TV spoke to the 47-year-old ...

After a cutting-edge kidney transplant, Dana and Damon Bottoms want to spread the message of how easy it can be to donate an organ. Lena Dunham makes rare public speech in support of transgender ...

Facing heart, kidney and liver failure in late 2024, the Hollis resident’s only hope was a rare and highly unusual triple transplant. The odds were against him. "But it happened. Miracles exist ...

they are also asking immigration officers to consider releasing him on humanitarian parole so he could stay for up to a year in the United States to complete the kidney transplant. “Relief in ...

By Allison Detzel While José Alfredo Pacheco, a dialysis patient, desperately waits for a lifesaving kidney transplant in Illinois, his donor and brother, José Gregorio González, is being held ...