Since the 1990s, a race-based method for assessing kidney function placed many Black patients lower on the transplant waitlist. However, thousands of these patients were moved up the list in ...

The Food and Drug Administration has given two biotechnology companies approval for clinical trials that will transplant organs from genetically modified pigs into patients with kidney failure ...

Looney has been living for 10 weeks with a kidney from a pig instead ... About three weeks after the transplant, it looked as if Looney's body was starting to reject the new organ.

The research offers hope to tens of thousands of patients with kidney failure who are on a long waiting list for an organ transplant. By Roni Caryn Rabin The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has ...

As with a human donor kidney, he’ll need to take medications for the rest of his life to keep his body from rejecting the organ. “But this transplant isn’t about me,” he said.

Access to kidney transplants increased for undocumented immigrants in Illinois, Minnesota and Massachusetts following state policy changes from 2013 to 2023, data show. “U.S. citizens are ...