Kidney transplants
U.S. researchers are reporting the latest in a surprising string of experiments in the quest to save human lives with organs from genetically modified pigs.
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Authorities say a Canadian bicyclist who was raising money for his granddaughter’s kidney transplant with a long-distance ride died from injuries suffered when he was struck by a truck driver in South Dakota.
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SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s caretaker health minister on Friday sacked the management of a leading hospital in the capital, Sofia, where he said illegal organ transplants were carried out and state funds were abused on a large scale.
CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey hospital says a kidney meant for one patient was mistakenly transplanted into another patient with the same name who was farther down the priority list.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Motorsports giant Roger Penske disclosed Friday that he received a kidney transplant shortly after the 2017 IndyCar season finale.
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LONDON (AP) — Tina Turner has revealed that she underwent a kidney transplant with an organ donated by her husband.
NEW YORK (AP) — Some patients in desperate need of a kidney transplant participated in a bold experiment where they received organs infected with hepatitis C.
Selena Gomez recently received a kidney transplant from television actress Francia Raisa due to her struggle with lupus, the actress-singer revealed Thursday.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — As John Bryant left the Medical University of South Carolina in the summer of 1997 — a year and a half after the heart attack that set it all off, after he passed out in his sister-in-law’s house with his niece yelling, “Uncle John, don’t you do this to me” — one of his docto
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• Pine Island standout Shiloh Oekers took first in discus and shot at the Pine Island Quadrangular track meet.
• Pine Island standout Shiloh Oekers took first in discus and shot at the Pine Island Quadrangular track meet.
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson disclosed after a public dizzy spell on Friday that he has battled a kidney condition for more than three decades and is on a waiting list for a transplant.
BEIJING (AP) — No matter how many hurdles Aries Merritt clears this week at the world championships, he knows there’s an even bigger one waiting for him in a few days back at home — a kidney transplant.