Kidney disease, leading to kidney failure, afflicts disproportionately more black people than white people. Thus, there is a ...

Over 1,000 genes may serve as possible treatment targets for individuals with kidney disease, according to a new study, published in Science, from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the ...

A Mass General Hospital surgical team has completed its second pig-to-human kidney transplant, less than a year after the ...

Since the 1990s, a race-based method for assessing kidney function placed many Black patients lower on the transplant waitlist. However, thousands of these patients were moved up the list in ...

This achievement comes two years after the hospital initially announced its plans to commence kidney transplants in 2023.

Kidney transplant is the ideal treatment for those with end stage kidney disease (ESKD) who are eligible for, and interested in, this potentially life-saving procedure. Yet traditionally, the path to ...

The Food and Drug Administration has given two biotechnology companies approval for clinical trials that will transplant organs from genetically modified pigs into patients with kidney failure ...