For the second time, Massachusetts General Hospital has transplanted a genetically edited pig kidney into a human.

A new study finds that microplastics and nanoplastics accumulate at higher levels in the brain than in the liver and kidney.

Higher levels of leukocytes -- a form of white blood cell -- are associated with more severe symptoms of long COVID among ...

The FDA recently approved a bioengineered blood vessel, which becomes part of a patient’s body over time. It’s designed to ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s nominee for the nation’s top health post, has repeatedly disparaged vaccines, falsely linked them to autism and argued that White and Black people ...

The woman who has set the record for being the longest living recipient of a pig organ transplant said she feels like a ...

The woman who has set the record for being the longest living recipient of a pig organ transplant said she feels like a ...

An Alabama woman who is the only living recipient of a pig organ transplant became the longest living person with a ...

An Alabama woman passed a major milestone Saturday to become the longest living recipient of a pig organ transplant ...

For the almost 520,000 Americans who will undergo treatment this year, the process leaves little room for a full life. An ...

What signs do appear—fatigue, anemia, swelling—don’t carry a neon sign shouting ... The kidneys use a two-part process to filter blood. Each kidney contains a million individual tiny clusters of cells ...

What signs do appear—fatigue, anemia, swelling—don’t carry a neon ... process to filter blood. Each kidney contains a million individual tiny clusters of cells called nephrons, which are ...