Before she first discovered she had kidney disease, Fran Kendell led a healthy active life and had never heard of the Irish ...

Towana Looney is the only person in the world living with a functional pig kidney. But her doctor predicts that in less than ...

Towana Looney became the fifth American to receive a gene-edited pig organ last month and is recovering well. Looney's ...

Some research supports statin use for people with kidney disease or kidney failure and heart disease. Other research recommends caution for those with kidney issues. Heart disease is a major cause ...

An Alabama woman is "living healthily" more than a month after receiving a gene-edited kidney obtained from a pig.

Though she left behind a 4-year-old daughter, Sara Long told PEOPLE her feelings about death were "more certain" than they'd ...

An Alabama woman who had been on the waiting list for a kidney transplant since 2017 just became the third-ever recipient of ...

Four people who received pig organs died within two months of transplant. Now an Alabama woman hopes for a better outcome.

Kidney disease affects approximately 850 million people globally. This incidence is predicted to rise with the increased prevalence of risk factors such as ...

Towana Looney, a 53-year-old Alabama woman, is now free from years of dialysis after receiving an experimental pig kidney ...

has become the third living person to receive a kidney transplant from a gene-edited pig. Looney, who donated one of her kidneys to her mother back in 1999, developed kidney failure several ...