Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully performed the fourth pig kidney transplant in the U.S.&nb ...

Nate Robinson, the 11-year NBA veteran who won the league's Slam Dunk Contest three times, revealed on Instagram that he had ...

On Friday, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital announced that a 66-year-old New Hampshire man had successfully received ...

Since the 1990s, a race-based method for assessing kidney function placed many Black patients lower on the transplant waitlist. However, thousands of these patients were moved up the list in ...

There’s hope for patients living with end-stage kidney disease complications in the Ashanti Region and beyond, as a team of ...

A New Hampshire man fought for the chance at a pig kidney transplant, spending months getting into good enough shape to be part of a small pilot study of a highly experimental treatment.

Looney has been living for 10 weeks with a kidney from a pig instead ... About three weeks after the transplant, it looked as if Looney's body was starting to reject the new organ.

The Food and Drug Administration has given two biotechnology companies approval for clinical trials that will transplant organs from genetically modified pigs into patients with kidney failure ...

As with a human donor kidney, he’ll need to take medications for the rest of his life to keep his body from rejecting the organ. “But this transplant isn’t about me,” he said.