A 66-year-old New Hampshire man received the kidney as part of a small pilot study at Mass General Brigham. United Therapeutics, another developer of gene-edited pig organs, just won FDA approval for ...

A 66-year-old man, Tim Andrews, has successfully undergone a pig kidney transplant, becoming the second person to do so.

People diagnosed with dementia have up to 10 times more microplastics present in their brains than those without the ...

The second person ever has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney.

On Friday, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital announced that a 66-year-old New Hampshire man had successfully received ...

It was the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States, and the first of three that will be done at Mass General as ...

The FDA will allow two biotechnology companies to run clinical trials: United Therapeutics and eGenesis. United Therapeutics ...

"Yo-yo" dieting --- repeatedly losing and gaining weight -- can significantly increase risk of kidney disease among people ...

Body-weight cycling (also known as yo-yo dieting) has been shown to significantly increase the risk of kidney disease in people with type 1 diabetes, regardless of body mass index (BMI) and other ...

Tiny microplastics are making their way into the human brain, and new research suggests the problem is getting worse.

Cognitively normal human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 contained more tiny shards of plastic than samples ...

Dr Liz O’Riordan, a breast cancer surgeon and three-time cancer patient, shares the surprising things that raise the risk of ...