A Chicago man was wide awake as he witnessed Northwestern Medicine surgeons place his childhood best friend's kidney inside of him during a cutting-edge kidney transplant procedure. John Nicholas, 28, ...

Cleveland Clinic has reportedly witnessed and performed the United States' first-ever robot-assisted surgery during a dual kidney transplant. This innovative method involved a minimally invasive ...

Seventeen-year-old Macey Brown returned to St. Louis Children’s Hospital six weeks after becoming the first person in ...

The kidney transplant evaluation process starts with a visit to a transplant nephrologist and a transplant surgeon. These doctors will discuss your health history and physically examine you. You will ...

A 54-year-old New Jersey woman has become the second living person to receive a genetically engineered pig kidney. The surgery, carried out at NYU Langone Health on April 12, also involved ...

Harry Stackhouse was diagnosed with COVID-19 in December 2019, which is when doctors noticed one of his kidneys was failing, and the other was only working at 2%, according to Northwestern. The father ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — Dana Bottoms is feeling a renewed sense of hope after receiving a kidney transplant — a procedure she has awaited for four years. “I can’t believe it’s actually here,” she said. In ...

Surgeons at NYU Langone Health performed the first combined mechanical heart pump and gene-edited pig kidney transplant surgery. The patient was a 54-year-old woman with heart and kidney failure, and ...

CHICAGO — Surgeons at Northwestern Medicine performed a kidney transplant on an awake patient, marking a first for the Chicago-based healthcare system. The patient, 28-year-old John Nicholas of ...

The man who successfully received the first-ever pig kidney transplant has died nearly two months after the groundbreaking procedure was performed. Richard Slayman, 62, who received the pig kidney ...