Now one of three internationally, UAB has recently been named an OHF Care Center for excellence in research and clinical care ...

Obesity is an important health issue for patients with chronic kidney disease, speeding its progression, contributing to ...

Subsequently, his right kidney was transplanted into a Virginia woman in her 60s. His left kidney, liver and heart went to other states, to male patients in their 40s, 50s and 70s. It’s no ...

THE first person in the UK to have all of her major organs transplanted has died aged 46 - more than a decade after her ground-breaking operations. Allison Angell suffered from cystic fibrosis and ...

A new method of scanning lungs is able to show the effects of treatment on lung function in real time and enable experts to see the functioning of transplanted lungs. This could enable medics to ...

But if the debilitating spine injury she suffered wasn’t bad enough, the discovery she had IgA nephropathy was just ... that was when she was put on the transplant list. It took her longer ...

ABC News visits scientists raising pigs with genetically modified organs. There are more than 100,000 people currently waiting for an organ transplant and it’s estimated that another person is ...

One of these is kidney disease. HIV-associated nephropathy (HIVAN) is a severe type of kidney disease that can happen due to the effects of HIV. This typically only develops in severe cases.

Theoretically, transplanted stem cells could repair any damaged tissue. Parkinson’s lent itself to testing that theory. The first transplant of such cells took place in Sweden in 1987 using ...

NYU Langone Transplant Institute Director Dr. Robert Montgomery called Looney a "hero" while speaking to Siegel in a separate interview. "She gave the gift of life to her mother," he said.

During a median follow-up of 2.6 years, 39.9% of patients received a kidney transplant. The highest vs lowest quartile of patient to nurse ratio was significantly associated with a 14% reduced ...