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The inexplicable rise of kidney disease in Sri Lanka’s farming communities
Al Jazeera· 19 hours agoIn the sleepy, verdant village of Ambagaswewa, in the Polonnaruwa district of Sri Lanka’s North...
Woman Becomes First Person to Receive Both Pig Kidney Transplant and Heart Pump
Scientific American· 4 days agoPeople with heart failure may be eligible to receive a heart transplant; people with kidney failure...
She was too sick for a traditional transplant. So she received a pig kidney and a heart pump
WOI-TV Des Moines· 4 days agoDoctors have transplanted a pig kidney into a New Jersey woman who was near death, part of a...
Over 14K Black Patients Moved Up On The Kidney Transplant Waitlist After Race Was Determined An...
AfroTech via Yahoo News· 3 days agoA long-time factor for a medical test for kidney transplant evaluations has been rectified, which...
NHS and Home Office ask passport holders to confirm organ donation status amid shortage
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 10 hours agoAround 5,700 people are waiting for a new kidney in the UK - PEAKSTOCK/ISTOCKPHOTO Health leaders...
A Genetic Connection to Kidney Disease
The Central Virginian· 4 days agoHow APOL1-mediated kidney disease can impact you, your kidneys and your family
A woman with failing kidneys receives genetically modified pig organs
NPR· 4 days ago"I got somewhat of me back. Not there yet. But I'm getting there." Ten days earlier, Pisano became...
Surgeons perform first combined heart pump and pig kidney transplant
CNN via AOL· 3 days agoThe first transplant surgery to combine a mechanical heart pump as well as a gene-edited pig kidney...