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

Thousands of patients on the list die each year, and thousands more come off the list because their health has worsened to ...

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

Life for Towana Looney hasn’t been easy. After giving her mother one of her kidneys in 1999, the Alabama woman thought the ...

An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it and is back on dialysis, doctors announced Friday — a disappointment in the ...

One of every three donated kidneys never gets transplanted. CBS News explores why a growing number are being discarded.

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

Massachusetts General Hospital performed its second successful transplant of a genetically edited pig kidney into a living ...

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

The longest-living recipient of a genetically engineered pig kidney has had the organ removed after experiencing acute organ rejection, surgeons at New York City-based NYU Langone told The New York ...

Scientists developed a way to freeze a large mammal’s kidney, which could ease organ shortages in the future. First, they had ...

Vicki Haggen is one of the world’s longest-surviving kidney transplant patients after her sister donated one of her kidneys ...