Over half a million people visit emergency rooms each year due to kidney stone complications. An estimated one in ten individuals experiences kidney stones at some point in their lives.

Here’s the catch: kidney damage doesn’t usually scream for attention in the early stages. It creeps up silently, showing subtle signs only when things have already taken a turn for the worse.

Scientists developed a way to freeze a large mammal’s kidney, which could ease organ shortages in the future. First, they had to see if their method would work in a pig. By Gina Kolata On the ...

An Alabama woman living with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had it removed after her body began to reject it. Towana Looney from Gadsden, Ala., returned home following her April 4 surgery at ...

Towana Looney's transplanted pig kidney was removed after 130 days due to rejection. This was the longest a human had survived with a pig kidney transplant. She has returned to dialysis and awaits ...

Towana Looney lived with the kidney longer than any other transplant patient had tolerated an organ from a genetically modified animal. By Roni Caryn Rabin Surgeons removed a genetically ...

Eleanor Rivera receives funding from the National Institutes of Health. She is affiliated with the National Kidney Foundation and the Department of Veterans Affairs. For a disease afflicting 35.5 ...

Another patient has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney. Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old who lives in Concord, N.H., has end-stage kidney disease and had been on dialysis for ...

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Chronic kidney disease is a condition that happens when your kidneys are damaged and can’t filter blood the way they should, according to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and ...

Matters can become more serious, however, when dealing with hematomas. A hematoma is a collection of blood related to a breakage of blood vessels. "This can occur due to injury or other trauma ...