Key TakeawaysKidney transplant recipients who’ve never been exposed to the Epstein-Barr virus but receive organs from a donor who has been may develop a rare an ...

It was an emotional reunion in Westchester County as a son who made a life-saving kidney donation to his mother met with the ...

“U.S. citizens are eligible to receive health care coverage for kidney transplantation through Medicare; undocumented immigrants are not,” Gayathri Menon, MHS, a data analyst at the New York ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Friday, Robinson received a new kidney from a live donor during an hourslong transplant surgery at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle, according to ESPN's Baxter Holmes.

Nate Robinson had a successful kidney transplant Friday in Seattle. The former NBA guard, who played with the Celtics in 2009-10 and 2010-11, thanked donor Shane Cleveland on social media.

Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital transplanted a pig kidney into a 66-year-old patient with end-stage kidney disease.

The second person ever has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney. Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old who lives in Concord, N.H., has end-stage kidney disease and had been on dialysis ...

The first transplant is expected in mid-2025. Meanwhile, rival eGenesis said it had received FDA approval in December for a separate three-patient kidney study. "The study will evaluate patients ...

Nate Robinson has a new kidney. The ex-NBA guard received the new organ during an hourslong transplant surgery that began Friday morning at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle.

Because Looney had donated a kidney to her mother in 1999, she was at the top of the transplant list when she needed one herself about eight years ago. She waited and hoped for a human donor ...