Using loopholes and fraud, brokers turn poverty in Bangladesh and demand for transplants in India into booming business.

In 1954, the world's first successful organ transplant took place at Brigham and Women's Hospital, in the form of a kidney donated from one twin to the other. At the time, a group of doctors and ...

Scientists tracked how human immune cells attack pig kidneys after transplant—and found a way to fight back using precision ...

But there's a problem, and a big one at that: The body naturally wants to reject any tissue it knows it didn't manufacture.

A second man from Albany, N.Y., aged 66, who received the donor’s other kidney also developed a parasitic infection, the ...

The 61-year-old man received a new kidney from a deceased donor after being diagnosed with “nephrosclerosis-related end-stage ...

A Central Texas man is beginning a new chapter as he is in San Antonio for a life-changing kidney transplant. Dustin Jones ...

And it could not be better timed—the first US-based clinical trials of pig kidney transplantation into living humans begin ...

First-Ever Bladder Transplant Surgeons Nassiri, who specializes in urology transplants at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, and Inderbir Gill, of USC Urology, first transplanted a donated kidney, ...

Looney's relative success could lead to more procedures for alternative organ transplants. An Alabama woman is back on dialysis after receiving a groundbreaking pig kidney transplant that her body ...

“To have a kidney last that long is fantastic,” says Dr. Deborah B. Adey, medical director of the UCSF transplant program. “We see it. We celebrate it. It just isn’t the norm.

Surgeons at NYU Langone Health in New York City had to remove a genetically modified pig kidney from Towana Looney, 53, of Gadsden, Ala., because her body rejected the organ. She's back on dialysis.