A new Transplant International analysis examines three Singapore cases in which concealed extramarital affairs raised ...

She survived a deadly house fire that killed her husband and dog. Now Susan Wood needs a kidney donor to survive what comes ...

My daughter, age 44, has had chronic kidney disease since she was 10 years old. She had a renal transplant at 23, then another at 32. The second graft started gradually failing a year back. In January ...

A nationwide South Korean study of more than 100,000 dialysis patients found that full COVID-19 vaccination cut the risk of ...

A New Hampshire man, at death’s door 1 ½ years ago, said Friday he could now have “decades” left after surviving a record 271 days with a transplanted pig kidney — in a procedure that could offer new ...

To undergo kidney dialysis, doctors must first surgically create an access route—an arteriovenous fistula—usually in an arm, a conduit that will accommodate hemodialysis treatments. It is a routine ...

An Alabama woman has become the third person to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically engineered pig, her doctors announced Tuesday. Towana Looney, 53, is off of kidney dialysis after ...

Chronic kidney disease is projected to be the fifth leading cause of death worldwide by 2050, and there are calls to end Australia’s dependence on dialysis procedures. Though the treatment prolongs ...

Hemodialysis is a procedure where excess fluids and waste products are filtered from the blood. It is done externally using a machine called a dialyzer. Millions of people in America have received a ...

TRANSPLANTED INTO A HUMAN. SADLY, THAT MAN FROM WEYMOUTH DIED LESS THAN TWO MONTHS LATER, ONLY ON FIVE. I SPOKE WITH ONE DOCTOR WHO PERFORMED THAT PROCEDURE ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED AND WHERE THIS ...

An ailing 62-year-old man with end-stage kidney disease has been given a kidney transplant from a genetically engineered pig in a first-of-its-kind procedure, doctors revealed Thursday. Surgeons at ...

In a new test of xenotransplantation, a medical team at Massachusetts General Hospital announced Thursday that, for the first time, it had transplanted a kidney from a CRISPR gene-edited pig into a ...