Her body began rejecting the pig kidney after a record 130 days. AP Before Looney’s transplant only four other Americans had received experimental xenotransplants of gene-edited pig organs ...

FILKE - Pig kidney transplant recipient Towana Looney sits with transplant surgeon Dr. Jayme Locke on Dec. 10, 2024, at NYU Langone Health in New York. (AP Photo/Shelby Lum, File) ...

Towana Looney, 53, of Gadsden, Ala., had her pig kidney removed on April 4, after her body rejected the genetically modified organ, according to NYU Langone Health in New York. The pig organ ...

Certain foods can be bad for your health if you have kidney disease. Avoiding or limiting foods high in sodium, potassium, and phosphorus when you have kidney disease can help slow or stop disease ...

A genetically engineered pig kidney helped Towana Looney enjoy 130 days without the need for dialysis before the organ was removed last week. It’s the longest a human has ever lived with a pig organ, ...

The main symptom of kidney stones is pain in your back, abdomen, or side. Some other symptoms include cloudy urine, a burning sensation when you urinate, and nausea. Kidney stones are one of the ...

Groceries cost a kidney, gas a lung. Your 'deals'? Just hot air from your tongue. "Look what you taxed us through! Inflation's ghost chasing me and you. Look what you taxed us through. Rich fly ...

At just 5 years old, Lyndzi was diagnosed with kidney disease and her condition deteriorated fast. A couple days in the hospital turned into more than three months. Lyndzi said it was hard to ...

For Interwell Health, the hard part came after the ink dried on a three-way merger that formed the kidney care company. The company came together after Interwell, Cricket Health and Fresenius ...

Now Palumbo is no more than six months away from debilitating hours of dialysis every week unless he gets a kidney transplant. The news that came 18 months ago about his failing kidneys ...

Vincent Hospital to undergo a life-saving kidney transplant. There are nerves, of course. But like any good coach, the 70-year-old Hawkins is already thinking a few steps ahead. “I went through ...

Leslie Fraser, who received a kidney transplant, says he has plans to pay it forward. "When I was on dialysis, I lost count of how many people I saw pass away. I started to think, ‘Well ...