Nearly 115,000 people are currently waiting for a new organ. But the shortage crisis is nothing new, as 5,600 people die each year waiting for an organ. Ali Rogin spoke with Barry Friedman, the former ...

PERRYSBURG, Ohio — A new film hit the screens Wednesday night at the Rave 12 Cinemas in Perrysburg, raising awareness on living kidney donation. The film, "Abundant," features true stories of people's ...

In a historic first, a kidney from a genetically modified pig was successfully transplanted into a human. Researchers hope for more of this kind of transplant because there aren’t enough human organs ...

TULSA, Okla — A new documentary is raising awareness and hoping to inspire others to donate a kidney. It’s a life-saving donation, and hundreds of people in Oklahoma need it. “It wasn’t even something ...

Pioneering research led by Brazilians describes the immune system's reactions in detail in the first living patient to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant.

Tim Andrews pulled a black jacket over his 2002 Patriots Super Bowl t-shirt and greeted another patient waiting in a wheelchair by the door of the dialysis center. “Hey, how you doing, brothah,’ he ...

The kidney was transplanted into a 62-year-old man. A surgical team said Thursday it has conducted the world's first genetically edited pig kidney transplant into a living human. During a four-hour ...

Rick Slayman, the world’s first living recipient of a genetically edited pig kidney transplant, was discharged from the hospital Wednesday, two weeks after his operation, Massachusetts General ...

Jazmin Evans had been waiting for a new kidney for four years when her hospital revealed shocking news: She should have been put on the transplant list in 2015 instead of 2019 — and a racially biased ...

Jazmin Evans had been waiting for a new kidney for four years when her hospital revealed shocking news: She should have been put on the transplant list in 2015 instead of 2019 — and a racially biased ...

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 ...