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Fourteen years ago, Edward Jones received a kidney transplant. He needed the organ after the constant dialysis that slowed down the then firefighter’s on-the-go life.
The research being done across Mayo Clinic is part of a growing trend in transplant to explore ways to use cellular therapies to prevent organ rejection.
Kyle Clark teared up as he made calls to his family from an intensive care unit at a hospital in China, where he’d been placed on dialysis.
In yet another sign of xenotransplantation creeping toward reality, a medical team at NYU Langone Health announced Tuesday that, for the third time, a kidney from a genetically modified pig had been transplanted into a living patient.
A new lawsuit filed Aug. 20 in federal court in Portland sheds light on the enormous financial and human costs of the complex clinical trials that underlie modern pharmaceutical breakthroughs.
At its 2024 Awards Gala, held June 20, 2024, at The Plaza Hotel in New York City to honor kidney donors and the achievements of the American transplant industry, the National Kidney Registry presented the Terasaki Medical Innovation Award to Dr. Joe Leventhal. The Terasaki Medical Innovation Award is given to an individual or organization…
Immunofree, a company advancing stem cell technology to eliminate the need for immunosuppressive medications in transplant patients, congratulates Dr. Robert Montgomery on winning the prestigious Jacobson Innovation Award from the American College of Surgeons. The award was presented to Dr. Montgomery on June 14, 2024, at the Chicago History Museum at a dinner in his…
Surgeons at NYU Langone Health performed the first combined mechanical heart pump and gene-edited pig kidney transplant surgery.
In the fall of 2021, Gabriel Arias felt like his body was “rotting from the inside.” He was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, a form of blood cancer so aggressive that doctors had him hospitalized the day of his biopsy.