For decades, scientists and surgeons around the world have been trying to solve the organ donor crisis. The answer could be ...

If you are on dialysis, managing your fluid intake is important. Here are five ways to do so and how to know when you're ...

A new clinical trial will soon test if a pig liver can help people whose own livers have suddenly stopped working.

In this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum, who have been following the ...

For the first time since 2016, I enjoyed time with friends and family without planning around dialysis treatments,” the patient said in a statement.

Genesis has gained US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance on an Investigational New Drug (IND) application for a genetically engineered porcine (pig) liver designed for use with OrganOx’s ...

A US woman who lived with a pig kidney for 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it and is back on dialysis, doctors have announced. Towana Looney from Alabama is recovering ...

A patient with end-stage kidney disease successfully received a genetically engineered porcine kidney and was released from ...

Life for Towana Looney hasn’t been easy. After giving her mother one of her kidneys in 1999, the Alabama woman thought the routine procedure would give her mother a new lease on life and herself peace ...

WASHINGTON — An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it and is back on dialysis, doctors announced Friday — a ...

WASHINGTON — An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it and is back on dialysis, doctors announced Friday — a ...