Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Towana Looney is brought into the operating room for her xenotransplant surgery at NYU Langone Health in New York City on November ...

What is kidney failure? This is a diagnosis determined based upon bloodwork, the evidence of the effectiveness of the kidney’s filtration function as well as the impact on the body. Kidney failure is ...

NEWSCENTER 5. ALL RIGHT, SARA, THANK YOU. FOR THE SECOND TIME, MASS GENERAL HAS TRANSPLANTED A KIDNEY FROM A PIG TO A PERSON. IT’S JUST THE FOURTH TIME THIS PROCEDURE HAS BEEN DONE ANYWHERE IN THE ...

- Transplant performed at Massachusetts General Hospital as part of a three-patient FDA-authorized Expanded Access study CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--eGenesis, a biotechnology company developing ...

Acute kidney injury (AKI), previously called acute renal failure, is when the kidneys are suddenly unable to filter waste products from the blood. This condition can develop slowly or quickly, and ...

Thomas (TJ) Atkinson was enjoying life. He loved his job and had been married for more than two decades, and then was shocked when he received a diagnosis that changed the trajectory of his life. "By ...