A patient with end-stage kidney disease successfully received a genetically engineered porcine kidney and was released from the hospital in February, according to biotech firm eGenesis.

Carilion Clinic, based in Roanoke, has been approved for a state Certificate of Need to establish a kidney transplant program, with the first transplants to be offered as early as 2026. Dr. David ...

The health system will now need to apply to the United Network for Organ Sharing, or UNOS. It expects to start transplant ...

Priya Ramdas received a life-saving kidney transplant in 2013. Five years afterward, she was able to have her first baby.

Dialysis – a procedure to help remove waste and extra ... Some experts foresee pig kidney transplant becoming an established option for patients within a decade, a major advancement that would ...

I needed a kidney transplant due to a genetic condition called ... That’s where I hope that my representative, David Schweikert, will step in. He is a fiscal conservative, a health care reform ...

Local resident Brandon Allen Smith has been accepted into Emory’s kidney transplant program and is now actively seeking a ...