Current mortality prediction models for patients with kidney failure may introduce bias and applicability concerns in clinical practice, according to a large systematic review. “Risk prediction models ...

Another patient has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney. Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old who lives in ...

Massachusetts General Hospital announced that Tim Andrews recovered well enough from the transplant to leave the hospital a ...

More than 90% of the adult population in the U.S. is or has been infected with Epstein Barr virus (EBV). EBV is a highly contagious member of the herpes virus family, best known for causing infectious ...

Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital transplanted a pig kidney into a 66-year-old patient with end-stage kidney disease.

The recipient was Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old New Hampshire resident who had end-stage kidney disease and was on dialysis for ...

A Concord man is the latest recipient of an unusual procedure: He's had his kidney replaced with one from a pig.

Massachusetts General Hospital has performed its second successful genetically edited pig kidney transplant into a patient, MGH reported on Friday. The “miracle” transplant is giving 66-year-old Tim ...