Tim Andrews knew that he needed dialysis to manage his end-stage kidney disease, but over months of treatment, he started to wonder whether it was worth it. Desperate for another option, he found a ...

A very different kind of "hog farm" is being built by United Therapeutics Corp. on the edge of Stewartville to raise gene-edited pigs in a $110 million pathogen-free facility to harvest kidneys and ...

In the attached VIDEO REPORT, sports director Fletcher Mackel profiles Tulane University tennis head coach Mark Booras and his life-saving and life-changing heart transplant. Booras is on the road ...

The combined heart and kidney transplant, performed last November at MUSC Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital in Charleston, is believed to be the first successful procedure of its kind in South ...

Carilion Clinic’s request to establish a kidney transplant center in Roanoke has been approved. The transplant center will be the region’s only organ transplant program. Currently, patients in ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 12, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- An 11-year-old boy is the first in the world to have an artificial heart valve replaced with a live tissue valve from a donated heart through a ...

Doctors performed Louisiana's first robotic kidney transplant, giving Brown a renewed ... I mean that from the bottom of my heart, without a second thought.” During an interview with The ...

Researchers in China have carried out the first transplant of a pig liver, genetically modified ... to those made in recently reported heart and kidney xenotransplants and a cross-circulation ...

Lester's ceremony was held at Norton Children's Hospital as he awaits a heart transplant. On his stole, Lester wore a pin of an anatomically-accurate heart and a green ribbon, to raise awareness ...

The procedure, known as a partial heart transplant, was performed at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C., marking it not only the region’s first partial heart transplant ...