It can be unusual for a husband and wife to be a transplant match because several factors are required, including blood and ...

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 ...

Towana Looney lived with the kidney longer than any other transplant patient had tolerated an organ from a genetically ...

Doctors have had to remove the pig kidney implanted in an American woman after her body rejected it, but her four months ...

A pig kidney kept an Alabama woman alive for five months - longer than anyone ever before. Doctors aren't sure yet why it suddenly stopped.

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

Flynn said she underwent a lot of testing and squeaked by to become an official candidate for the heart transplant. She said ...

Kidney transplant recipients with longer exposure to daily average temperatures of at least 86°F were more likely to experience worsening kidney function, graft failure and death from any cause, ...

A genetically engineered pig kidney helped Towana Looney enjoy 130 days without the need for dialysis before the organ was ...

More than 16,000 people in Arizona are living with kidney failure, according to the American Kidney Fund. The fastest, and ...

Exposure to high temperatures may be renally taxing for kidney transplant recipients, a researcher reported here. Among ...

Vanderbilt University made Tennessee history after they became the first hospital to perform a successful kidney transplant ...