A Chicago man was wide awake as he witnessed Northwestern Medicine surgeons place his childhood best friend's kidney inside of him during a cutting-edge kidney transplant procedure. John Nicholas, 28, ...

Compared with patients who undergo surgery within 1 month of emergency department presentation, those waiting 6 months or more had significant 20% increased odds of undergoing complex surgery, data ...

In a medical first, doctors transplanted a gene-edited pig kidney into a human patient after giving her a new heart pump. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

The kidney transplant evaluation process starts with a visit to a transplant nephrologist and a transplant surgeon. These doctors will discuss your health history and physically examine you. You will ...

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 ...

The kidneys are among the most important organs of the human body. Every day they filter around 1,500 litres of blood, ...

Richard Slayman, the first person to ever receive a kidney from a pig, has died, according to Massachusetts General Hospital, where the transplant was performed in March. In a statement late Saturday, ...

BURLINGTON, N.C. — Albert Jefferies, better known as Al J, met up with his kidney donor, Mandy Harris, following his life-saving surgery. "I can't believe this person went through all this for me," ...