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aAn Alabama woman is free from dialysis and in better health after surgeons at NYU Langone Health performed a gene-edited pig kidney transplant last month. The surgery represents the latest …

Photo credit: SvetaZi Living donor liver transplants are increasingly emerging to increase the number of transplant patients and reduce the demand for deceased donor transplants. Living liver transplantation (LDLT) from …

According to the American Cancer Society, there were more than 100,000 new cases of colon cancer this year. If it spreads, it is considered metastatic colon cancer. That's what happened …

ANTIOCH, CA – DECEMBER 25: Christy Ouimet holds her son Matthew, 10, wearing a button with a photo of donor Brandon on Saturday, December 25, 2021, at her home in …

TThe pain in his abdomen worsened day by day, and Consuelo Santiago could hardly get out of bed. For 10 years, she had suffered from a debilitating liver disease that …

MU Health Care in Columbia-Missouri launches new blood, bone marrow transplant, and cell therapy program Patients living with cancer, complex blood disorders, and other illnesses in central Missouri can seek …

A fully mechanical heart made by Vivacor, which uses the same technology as high-speed trains, has been implanted inside a human body for the first time, a major step towards …

Nature First human pig kidney transplant: what it means for the future Surgeons in Massachusetts perform the world's first genetically modified pig kidney transplant in a living human. Boston, …March …

1 Introduction Kidney transplantation from a living donor is the treatment of choice for end-stage kidney disease, and currently represents 40% of all kidney transplantations (Hanson et al., 2019). To …

MONROE, La. (KNOE) – It's estimated that more than 18 million people in the United States are cancer survivors. In this week's Health Minute, sponsored by Saint Francis Health, experts …