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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...
...14K Black Patients Moved Up On The Kidney Transplant Waitlist After Race Was Determined An...
AfroTech via Yahoo News· 2 days agoA long-time factor for a medical test for kidney transplant evaluations has been rectified, which...
One in five people awaiting a transplant are Hispanic—here's what to know about organ donation
Medical Xpress· 6 days agoThe number of Hispanic organ donors in the U.S. has increased in recent years, but that growth has...
Grandmother without long to live gets breakthrough pig kidney transplant
NY Post via Yahoo News· 3 days agoJoe Carrotta for NYU Langone Health An incredible need, with little supply Since organ transplants...
'You need a transplant': How a breathless beach walk saved Toms River woman's life
Gannett via AOL· 2 days agoMore than 100,000 people in the U.S. are on the transplant list, according to the Gift of Life Donor...
4-year-old who received new heart after waiting 1,025 days goes home from hospital
ABC7 News· 2 days agoA 4-year-old girl was discharged from Texas Children's Hospital on Thursday after waiting on the ...
Heartfelt relief: USC transplant center opening in Las Vegas to ease burden for Nevadans
Las Vegas Sun· 2 days agoKeck Hospital of USC’s Chief of Operations Jon Reuter, front left, and Transplant Administrator Pat...
...University Medical Center Kidney Transplant Leaders Participate in National...Events to Increase...
Newswise· 2 days agoWith more than 103,000 men, women and children on the national transplant waiting list and 17 patients dying each day while waiting to receive an
A new kind of gene-edited pig kidney was just transplanted into a person
Technology Review· 4 days ago“It’s an awfully exciting time,” says Andrew Cameron, a transplant surgeon at Johns Hopkins Medicine...
New technology is helping make organ transplants easier and better — and saving more lives
CBS News· 5 days agoA vigil in Delaware County over the weekend remembered Damien Hocker, a 17-year-old killed in an...