By Roni Caryn Rabin A severely ill 54-year-old woman earlier this month became the second person to receive a kidney transplanted from a genetically modified pig, surgeons at NYU Langone Health in ...
More than 14,000 kidney transplant candidates were moved up the waitlist. Jazmin Evans is one of more than 14,000 Black kidney transplant candidates who found out that an outdated medical test may ...
People with heart failure may be eligible to receive a heart transplant; people with kidney failure may be lucky enough to receive a kidney transplant. But for many people with both heart and ...
A New Jersey woman is the second living recipient of a pig kidney. A month ago, Richard Slayman became the first living person to receive a kidney transplant from a gene-edited pig. Now ...
On Wednesday, doctors from NYU Langone detailed the complex procedures, one of which involved a pig kidney transplant. The innovative technology could give hope to the thousands of people ...
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – A New Jersey woman has received a first-of-its-kind transplant using a modified pig kidney along with a heart pump. She says she's grateful for her second chance at life.
She needed both a new heart pump and a new kidney, but because she was on dialysis, she wasn't a good candidate for the heart pump, and because of her heart problems she wouldn't have qualified ...
Jazmin Evans is one of more than 14,000 Black kidney transplant candidates who found out that an outdated medical test may have inappropriately calculated their need for a transplant. Evans ...
NEW YORK — Doctors have transplanted a pig kidney into a New Jersey woman who was near death, part of a dramatic pair of surgeries that also stabilized her failing heart. Lisa Pisano’s ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Doctors have transplanted a pig kidney into a New Jersey woman who was near death, part of a dramatic pair of surgeries that also stabilized her failing heart. Lisa Pisano’s ...
Not all people with lupus will require a kidney transplant. However, if they experience inflammation of the kidneys, known as lupus nephritis, they may require a kidney transplant depending on ...
The first transplant surgery to combine a mechanical heart pump as well as a gene-edited pig kidney has been completed at NYU Langone Health, the system said Wednesday. The subject, 54-year-old ...