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Wednesday, April 24
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Woman becomes first patient to undergo combined heart pump implant and pig kidney transplant
(NEW YORK) -- In a first-of-its-kind procedure, a terminally ill patient has become the first person in the world to undergo a gene-edited pig kidney transplant and also have a mechanical heart pump surgically implanted.Surgeons at NYU Langone Health, in New York City, performed ...
Monday, April 22
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New race-neutral kidney evaluation moves thousands of Black patients up transplant waitlist
(NEW YORK) -- Jazmin Evans is one of more than 14,000 Black kidney transplant candidates who found out that an outdated medical test may have inappropriately calculated their need for a transplant.Evans, 29, was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease in January 2012. She started ...
Thursday, March 21
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Surgeons transplant worlds first genetically edited pig kidney into living human
(BOSTON) -- A surgical team said Thursday it has conducted the world's first genetically edited pig kidney transplant into a living human.During a four-hour procedure earlier this month, surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital connected the pig kidney's blood vessels and ureter -- the duct ...
Monday, March 18
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Sean Kernan
Wake Up Tri-Counties March is Kidney Disease Awareness Month
More than 1.4 million Illinois residents suffer from some kind of Kidney Disease. March is Kidney Disease Awareness Month and Samantha Rux brought Award-Winning Dietitian Sara Umphleet to Wake Up Tri-Counties on Monday, March 18th, to talk about Kidney Disease. Kidney Disease has two ...
Friday, January 12
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Mom has limbs amputated after going into septic shock following kidney stone surgery
(NEW YORK) -- Cindy Mullins was a healthy 41-year-old mom of two when she went into the hospital nearly six weeks ago for surgery on kidney stones. On Friday, Mullins is finally going home after a life-changing experience that resulted in both of her legs ...