The liver’s unique metabolic and immunological profile makes this organ indispensable for a healthy life. Advances in the ...

Understanding the link between obesity, fatty liver disease and kidney stones provides a new perspective on prevention and ...

An FDA-funded clinical trial found even modest CBD use triggered elevated liver enzymes in some healthy adults, raising ...

I would like to know your position on the indication of combined liver-kidney transplantation for patients in end-stage renal disease with Child's class A cirrhosis and no history of decompensation.

Liver recipient Connie Saragoza de Salinas, donor Aliana Deveza, surgeons Nancy Ascher and John Roberts, donor Annie Simmons and kidney recipient Erosalyn Deveza “It was heart-breaking for me to ...

Only about 300 to 400 people a year give a kidney to someone they never met. It's an act of generosity so unusual, a neuroscientist studies the people who do this.

Chinese researchers are reporting new steps in the quest for animal-to-human organ transplants – with a successful pig kidney transplant and a hint that pig livers might eventually be useful, too.

In a first that gives HIV-infected patients yet another chance for long lives, surgeons at Johns Hopkins University Medical Center have transplanted a kidney and a liver from a dead donor who was ...

Daughter saves mom's life twice by donating her liver, kidney. Eileen Harlin gave a kidney and part of her liver to her mother Julia Harlin. 2:43. By Shafiq Najib. January 23, 2024, 5:18 PM.

A Houston hospital has temporarily stopped liver and kidney transplants after it says it learned one of its physicians altered patient records in a government database, which may have prevented ...

People in the United States who have HIV and need kidney or liver transplants can now receive organs from donors who also have HIV without having to be part of a research study. A new federal rule ...

The hospital has 38 patients on its liver transplant waiting list and 346 patients on its kidney transplant waiting list. Memorial Hermann said in a statement Friday that all of the liver ...