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

"It's like a second opportunity at life, to do things better than before," transplant recipient Sergio Arias Cestoni told Newsday.

She left the hospital 11 days after surgery at NYU Langone Transplant Institute ... helpful in the short term but can do only 10% to 15% of what a healthy kidney does, and people on dialysis ...

A daughter dedicated to community health care and her active father share their experience with living kidney donation, hoping to dispel myths in the community and encouraging more to share the gift ...

The world's longest-lasting pig organ transplant has failed ... gene-edited pig organs will work until researchers do a large, careful study. Both United Therapeutics Corp. which developed the kidney ...

A kidney transplant patient has died in Ohio after receiving an organ infected with rabies. The recipient received care in Lucas County, Ohio, in December 2024, the Toledo-Lucas County Health ...

"I do believe that God was working with all these people around me," said triple-transplant recipient ... then the liver and then the kidney over 14 hours of surgery. "A complex endeavor for ...

Towana Looney is recovering well from the April 4 removal surgery at NYU Langone Health ... Towana Looney, a pig kidney transplant recipient, gets a morning check-up with Dr. Jeffrey Stern at ...

Two of them received hearts and the others received kidneys, but no transplant lasted longer than two months and patients who were severely ill before the surgery died. A New Hampshire man who ...