An ailing 62-year-old man with end-stage kidney disease has been given a kidney transplant from a genetically engineered pig in a first-of-its-kind procedure, doctors revealed Thursday. Surgeons at ...

Every night before she goes to sleep, Leisa Parks goes through the same routine. She places the two bags of water on the peritoneal dialysis machine connected by a tube to the catheter in her abdomen.

Starting Dialysis when Kidney Function is High Increases Risk of Premature Death Recent guidelines that recommend that kidney disease patients start dialysis before their kidney function has ...

Chronic kidney disease in India affects 16.38% of adults, with millions needing dialysis or transplant. Prevention, awareness ...

A medical team performs a conventional kidney transplant in an undated photo, but a bio-engineered kidney soon might be available to help many more people. File Photo by Tareq Salahuddin/UPI April 15 ...

TRANSPLANTED INTO A HUMAN. SADLY, THAT MAN FROM WEYMOUTH DIED LESS THAN TWO MONTHS LATER, ONLY ON FIVE. I SPOKE WITH ONE DOCTOR WHO PERFORMED THAT PROCEDURE ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED AND WHERE THIS ...

After years of struggling with Polycystic Kidney Disease, losing both kidneys and a multitude of dialysis treatments, Sydney ...

Researchers at The Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have developed a new electronic medical records-based tool that should ...

An Alabama woman is recovering well after a pig kidney transplant last month that freed her from eight years of dialysis, the latest effort to save human lives with animal organs. “It’s like a new ...