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

An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed and is back on dialysis.

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

Brian Ekuom Ng'achuro, a resident of Turkana County, is appealing for financial assistance to raise KSh 650,000 to undergo ...

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

New UCLA research conducted using mouse models and human genetic data has uncovered a critical factor that determines how ...

Researchers reviewed the impact of prehabilitation on several surgery outcomes measures in patients with colorectal cancer.

Microwave ablation is an effective treatment modality for T1a and selected T1b renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Independent of the ...

In sharp contrast to earlier studies, patients with severe triple-vessel heart disease fared equally well whether they ...

GAGome scores had 90% sensitivity and 51% specificity for radiological recurrence, with an AUC of 0.73 for nonmetastatic clear-cell renal cell carcinoma. HealthDay News — Urine glycosaminoglycan ...

Background Vertebral hemangiomas are incidental and typically, asymptomatic lesions of the spine, present in 10–12% of the population. However, aggressive vertebral hemangiomas (AVHs) can compromise ...

A U.S. clinical trial is about to begin. Nearly three weeks after the kidney surgery the Chinese patient “is very well” and the pig kidney likewise is functioning very well, Dr. Lin Wang of ...