Photo: The identical Herrick twins were the first participants in a successful kidney transplant ... Medawar's work showed that the body's rejection of foreign tissue was indeed an immune response.

Johnson is now back on the transplant list to receive a deceased donor’s kidney. “They only last, this is a lengthy ...

you will need to have dialysis until the new kidney can take over. After the transplant, you will have to take medicines every day for the rest of your life. The medicines will help keep your body ...

UAB has completed more than 16,000 successful organ transplants since 1968, when our team performed Alabama’s first kidney transplant. Since then, UAB has been consistently recognized as one of ...

Kidney transplantation is an alternative method for treating kidney failure and can save a patient's life. This procedure involves implanting a kidney from an organ donor into the patient’s body ...

Seventy years after surgeons at Brigham & Women’s Hospital performed the world’s first kidney transplant ... director of the MGH Transplant Center. The human body will reject an ordinary ...

While the average 10-year-old spends their days having fun, childhood for Douglas Flournoy looked completely different after being diagnosed with chronic kidney disease.

People who receive kidney transplants must take immunosuppressive medications to prevent their body from rejecting the new kidney. These medications increase the risk of developing EBV-associated ...