MONDAY, Feb. 10, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully performed the fourth ...

“This is uncharted territory,” said Mass General’s Dr. Tatsuo Kawai, who led both Andrews’ surgery and the world’s first pig ...

Up to 50 transplant patients will receive a genetically modified pig kidney in a clinical trial that will launch this summer ...

Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully performed the fourth pig kidney transplant in ... two years on dialysis before the transplant surgery, The New York Times reported.

Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old from New Hampshire, spent months getting in shape for a chance to receive a pig kidney transplant ...

His doctors advised him he had to get in better shape for the surgery, so he started ... Lisa Pisano of New Jersey, had her transplant in New York using a pig kidney developed by United ...

“This is uncharted territory,” said Mass General’s Dr. Tatsuo Kawai, who led both Andrews’ surgery and the world’s first pig kidney transplant last year. But with lessons from animal ...