Purpose: To describe the development of a standard and practical user-centered design process for an interactive voice response system (IVRS) to improve self-management in kidney transplant (KT) ...

Phase 2 clinical trial shows a safe dose from a specific donor helped with gut microbiome recovery in people with cancer SEATTLE — Jan. 28, 2025 — A new study shows that oral fecal microbiota ...

The Food and Drug Administration has given two biotechnology companies approval for clinical trials that will transplant organs from genetically modified pigs into patients with kidney failure ...

“The start of formal clinical trials is very exciting,” says Jay Fishman, a specialist in transplant infectious diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. “The humans who have ...

SINGAPORE – On July 8, 1970, Dr Chan Kong Thoe created medical history in Singapore when he gave Ms Doreen Tan, then 29, a new lease of life with the country’s first kidney transplant.

The two other patients who have received pig kidneys ‒ one at NYU Langone and one at Massachusetts General Hospital ‒ died or had their transplant removed within eight weeks, as did two men ...

In a groundbreaking medical achievement in the U.K., a 32-year-old woman from Manchester has undergone the country's first liver transplant for advanced bowel cancer. Bianca Perea was diagnosed ...

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 ...

Researchers will evaluate its effects on liver function, frailty, and well-being, with patient perspectives shaping the trial design. A dietary supplement ... those affected either face the prospect ...

These 10 patches, each comprised of about 400 million heart cells, kept the woman stable until she could receive a heart transplant three months later, according to a paper published Wednesday ...