Kidney transplant procedures lag in Sask. By Hannah Scissons The StarPhoenix Posted January 21, 2011 12:19 pm 3 min read ...

A kidney transplant procedure can significantly improve the patient's quality of life by eliminating the need for dialysis, reducing health complications associated with kidney failure, and ...

Richard Slayman, the first person to ever receive a kidney from a pig, has died, according to Massachusetts General Hospital, where the transplant was performed in March. In a statement late Saturday, ...

A Chicago man was wide awake as he witnessed Northwestern Medicine surgeons place his childhood best friend's kidney inside of him during a cutting-edge kidney transplant procedure. John Nicholas, 28, ...

Dialysis – a procedure to help remove waste and extra fluid from the blood – can be helpful in the short term but can do only 10% to 15% of what a healthy kidney does, and people on dialysis ...