Tag: kidney

Former Munster S&C coach knew it was the right thing to do despite his own struggles in Australia John McGailey ...

Acute kidney failure, now known as acute kidney injury (AKI), occurs when your kidneys suddenly lose their ability to filter ...

WASHINGTON -- People who volunteer to donate a kidney face an even lower risk of death from the operation than ...

Washington — A woman who received a pig kidney transplant is back on dialysis because surgeons had to remove the ...

Rick Slayman, who in March became the first living person to receive a kidney from a genetically modified pig, has ...

Rick Slayman is pictured at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, where he became the first person to have a genetically ...

BOSTON — The first recipient of a genetically modified pig kidney transplant has died nearly two months after he underwent ...

The first sign something was wrong with Curtis Warfield came in 2005, when a lab test found protein in his ...

When Katie Coleman was diagnosed at age 29 with a softball-sized tumor on her right kidney and a host of ...

Surgeons in Boston have transplanted a kidney from a genetically engineered pig into an ailing 62-year-old man, the first procedure ...