Thirty-six percent of all donated livers are currently discarded due to uncertainty about their quality and whether they will ...

When you’re in your 30s, married to the love of your life with four beautiful children, the last thing you think you’ll hear ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Comprehensive Transplant Center set a new institution transplant record, performing a synchronized chain of 20 surgeries to transform ...

Because she had so few options for addressing a life-threatening condition, Towana Looney was eligible for special FDA approval of an otherwise unproven transplant procedure. A woman in Alabama is ...

An Alabama woman is recovering well after a pig kidney transplant last month in New York City that freed her from eight years ...

Towana Looney became the fifth American to receive a gene-edited pig organ last month and is recovering well. Looney's ...

Towana Looney became the first living recipient of a gene-edited pig kidney transplant ... a particular risk of incubating new viruses, but cats, too, pose a similar risk because of their ...

Some research supports statin use for people with kidney disease or kidney failure and heart disease. Other research recommends caution for those with kidney issues. Heart disease is a major cause ...

Aims: We assessed cat plasma and urine HIF-1α (pHIF-1α/uHIF-1α) concentrations and urine NTBI (uNTBI) concentrations to investigate their relationship with chronic kidney disease (CKD) severity.

An Alabama woman underwent a transplant procedure to get a new kidney from a gene-edited pig. Last month, a woman became the third living person to receive a pig kidney. Now, her kidney function is ...

NEW YORK (AP) — An Alabama woman is recovering well after a pig kidney transplant last month that freed her from eight years of dialysis, the latest effort to save human lives with animal organs.