These elements complement and conflict with each other. The year 2025 belongs to the snake, but if you were born in the Year of the Pig, here’s everything you need to know and more: 1.

The research offers hope to tens of thousands of patients with kidney failure who are on a long waiting list for an organ transplant. By Roni Caryn Rabin The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has ...

The Creole Pig: Haiti's Greatest Loss, a WLRN original production, reveals the devastating impact of the pig's eradication in 1978, sparked by an African swine flu outbreak, and how it ravaged ...

The longest survivor to date is Towana Looney, a 53-year-old woman from Alabama who received a pig’s kidney at NYU Langone Health in New York City in November. The four other organ recipients ...

The idea of using pig organs in humans is not new — one of the first recorded instances was in 1838, when a doctor transplanted a pig cornea into a human in an unsuccessful attempt to fix their ...

From snake-themed events to whether your luck is in: discover all you need to know about the coming Lunar New Year in our Year of the Snake 2025 series. Pigs are a sign opposing the tai sui ...

Looney has been living for 10 weeks with a kidney from a pig instead of her own. The longest anyone has survived with an organ from another species had been 60 days. The woman from Gadsen ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first-ever clinical trials testing pig kidney transplants ... New research finds that for many of those kids, this dual diagnosis continues ...

Less than a year after becoming the first hospital in the world to transplant a genetically-edited pig kidney into a living recipient, Massachusetts General Hospital successfully completed its ...

Teaching your kids about financial responsibility at a young age helps build strong financial literacy that will benefit them throughout life. The earlier you start, the better positioned they ...

A study last year from University of Texas at Austin claimed pig butchering scams may have netted $75 billion between 2020 and 2024. It’s also apparent that pig butchers are lurking on all ...

DESPITE THE RISK, TIM WAS FULLY COMMITTED TO BECOMING MASS GENERAL’S SECOND GENETICALLY EDITED PIG KIDNEY TRANSPLANT RECIPIENT LAST MONTH. WHEN I WOKE UP FROM SURGERY, I HAD ENERGY. THE CLOUD OF ...