The second man to receive a pig kidney transplant at Mass General Brigham had the kidney removed last week, officials confirmed Monday. Tim Andrews, of New Hampshire, set a world record — living with ...

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More than 40 years ago, former prison guard George Banks went on a shooting spree, killing 13 people, including five of his ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The first clinical trial is getting underway to see if transplanting pig kidneys into people might really ...

A New Hampshire man lived with a pig kidney for a record 271 days before surgeons removed it last week as the organ's function declined.

After five years on the kidney transplant list, WBZ photojournalist Jared Higginbotham is getting the most generous gift from ...

Record numbers of men and women globally are now estimated to have reduced kidney function, a new study shows. Figures rose ...

Mass General Brigham surgeons have removed a genetically edited pig kidney from a patient, Tim Andrews, after nearly nine months — making the 67-year-old the longest-living recipient of a pig kidney.

Tim Andrews, the second man to receive a genetically modified pig kidney at Mass General Brigham, had the porcine organ removed by surgeons last week following “a period of decreasing kidney function, ...

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