transplants

Scientists have reached a major milestone in animal-to-human transplant research as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first human clinical trials for kidney transplants from genetically modified …

More than a year after performing the first-ever successful transplant of a genetically-engineered pig kidney into a living human patient, a Boston hospital now has the green light to take …

Loyola University Medical Center knowingly performed organ transplants on unsuitable patients to boost Medicare billing, leading to harm and death, according to a former hospital official whose recently unsealed federal …

Staffing challenges prompted Allina Health to halt kidney transplants at its flagship hospital, Abbott Northwestern in Minneapolis, despite a growing need for the procedures in a society struggling with chronic …

An Ohio State study shows GLP-1 medications safely prepare obese patients for life-saving kidney transplants. COLUMBUS, Ohio — For patients with end-stage kidney disease, excess weight can stand between them …

For the fifth year in a row, Cedars-Sinai Cancer patients receiving donor stem cell transplants to treat blood and bone marrow cancer such as acute leukemia experienced better one-year survival …

Groundbreaking organ transplant of a pig’s kidney into a human Robert Montgomery, a New York transplant surgeon, conducted a successful surgery that transplanted a pig’s kidney into a brain-dead human …

When a child is diagnosed with a serious illness like leukemia, lymphoma, sickle cell disease, or a genetic blood condition, one potential treatment option may be a bone marrow transplant. …

Antarya Akdeniz University is recognized as the institution performing the widest variety of organ transplants in the world, and is preparing to add lung transplants to medical outcomes. President Özlenen …

The latest western-style diet, rich in processed foods, lean meat, dairy products and sugar, is hindering the composition of the gut microbiota in ways that can have a major impact …