"In sickness and in health": Pleasant Hills couple reflects one year after life-saving kidney transplant
For a Pleasant Hills couple, it's also the day one year ago, when they started a life-saving journey at Allegheny General ...
Springfield-raised performer brings benefit show home, raises money for kidney transplant
Brandon Looney, who grew up in the Ozarks, is bringing his benefit show to the Landers for one night as he raises money for ...
Black kidney patients find renewed hope after rules change for transplant list
A race-based method for calculating kidney function resulted in many Black patients being lower on the transplant waitlist ...
MGH performs its second, world’s fourth genetically altered pig kidney transplant
The recipient was Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old New Hampshire resident who had end-stage kidney disease and was on dialysis for ...
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Surgeons Perform Second Pig Kidney Transplant at Massachusetts General Hospital
A team at Massachusetts General Hospital led by Harvard Medical School physician-scientists has for the second time ...
NH man is 2nd person known to be living with a pig kidney after MGH transplant
His effort paid off: Tim Andrews, 66, is only the second person known to be living with a pig kidney. Andrews is free from ...
Ex-NBA player Nate Robinson is in recovery after undergoing kidney transplant
Former NBA star Nate Robinson received a kidney transplant nearly 20 years after he was diagnosed with kidney disease.
MGH completes its second pig-to-human kidney transplant
A Mass General Hospital surgical team has completed its second pig-to-human kidney transplant, less than a year after the ...
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FDA approves pig organ transplant trials for patients with kidney failure
She had been on kidney dialysis for nearly eight years ... The pig used in Looney’s transplant, developed by a subsidiary of United Therapeutics, had changes to its genetic code including ...
Second pig kidney transplant successfully completed at Massachusetts General Hospital
For the second time in less than a year, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital have transplanted a genetically-edited pig ...
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Experimental transplants with organs from gene-edited pigs see major steps forward
Andrews had spent the better part of two years on dialysis because of end-stage kidney disease. He was on the transplant wait list for a new kidney, but his blood type made it particularly ...