"In sickness and in health": Pleasant Hills couple reflect one year after life-saving kidney transplant
For a Pleasant Hills couple, it's also the day one year ago, when they started a life-saving journey at Allegheny General ...
Another Person Has Received a Pig Kidney Transplant
Another patient has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney. Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old who lives in ...
NH man is 2nd person known to be living with a pig kidney after MGH transplant
The surgery comes at a turning point in the quest to tell if animal-to-human transplants could help ease the shortage of ...
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Surgeons Perform Second Pig Kidney Transplant at Massachusetts General Hospital
A team at Massachusetts General Hospital led by Harvard Medical School physician-scientists has for the second time ...
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A call late at night led to hospital's first transplant operation
Huong of the National Children's Hospital in Hanoi received a call late on December 18, 2024 from the National Center for ...
MGH performs its second, world’s fourth genetically altered pig kidney transplant
The recipient was Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old New Hampshire resident who had end-stage kidney disease and was on dialysis for ...
US FDA greenlights studies of pig kidney transplants in humans
The US Food and Drug Administration approved clinical trials that will transplant organs from genetically modified pigs into ...
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EBV exposure linked to life-threatening cancer risk in kidney transplant patients
More than 90% of the adult population in the U.S. is or has been infected with Epstein Barr virus (EBV). EBV is a highly contagious member of the herpes virus family, best known for causing infectious ...
FDA approves pig organ transplant trials for patients with kidney failure
The first clinical trials using organs from genetically modified pigs offer hope to patients with kidney failure, who face a ...