When trying to remove life-threatening clots from blood vessels, current technologies are successful on only about half of ...

The Neue Klasse designation has a long history at BMW. At the dawn of the 1960s, the Bavarian manufacturer launched a new ...

Last Thursday during a roundtable on stem cell therapies, new FDA Commissioner Marty Makary referred to EBM levels of evidence as an artificial and dogmatic construct. Apparently Dr. David Katz's "mor ...

As the sun rose on Monday, Jan. 1, 1900, Americans awoke to a new decade — the first in what would be called an “American ...

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A Concord man who is the recipient of a pig kidney threw out the ceremonial first pitch at the Red Sox game Wednesday night.

Using CRISPR to correct the mutations behind polycystic kidney disease could counter some of the damage the condition causes ...

Tim Andrews knew that he needed dialysis to manage his end-stage kidney disease, but over months of treatment, he started to wonder whether it was worth it. Desperate for another option, he found a ...

In January, he had an experimental cross-species transplant of a kidney from a genetically modified pig. He is one of only a handful of patients who have undergone the experimental procedure.