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.

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.

New Hampshire native Tim Andrews was quite happy to spend his 67th birthday on Wednesday at Mass General Hospital (MGH). On ...

After years of research into xenotransplantation, the field is at a turning point—yet risks and ethical issues remain ...

Doctors hope this procedure — known as a xenotransplant ... Massachusetts General Hospital's second transplant of a genetically edited pig kidney into a living human recipient.

becoming only the third person in the world to receive a pig kidney. She has since been under the close care and observation of the NYU Langone Transplant Institute team while living in an ...

NEW YORK, Feb. 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Three months after her breakthrough surgery at NYU Langone Health, Towana Looney, the longest-living recipient of a genetically engineered pig kidney ...

A New Hampshire man has become the second person known to be living with a pig kidney. A New Hampshire man fought for the chance at a pig kidney transplant, spending months getting into good ...

His effort paid off: Tim Andrews, 66, is only the second person known to be living with a pig kidney. Andrews is free from dialysis, Massachusetts General Hospital announced Friday, and recovering ...