United Therapeutics Corporation , a public benefit corporation, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared its Investigational New Drug application (IND) to initiate ...

New moms who just have had twins run a high risk of heart disease in the next weeks and months, a new study suggests.

A mom's health during pregnancy is not likely to influence her child's risk of autism, a new study argues. Many previous ...

African swine fever virus (ASFV) is a large DNA virus belonging to the Asfarviridae family that damages the immune system of pigs, resulting in the death ... were tested in baby hamster kidney (BHK-21 ...

Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully performed the fourth pig kidney transplant in the U.S.&nb ...

The second person ever has received a transplant with a genetically modified pig kidney. Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old who lives in Concord, N.H., has end-stage kidney disease and had been on ...

A 66-year-old man from New Hampshire became the fourth person to receive a pig’s kidney. By Roni Caryn Rabin Surgeons in Boston successfully transplanted the kidney of a genetically modified pig ...

Massachusetts General Hospital announced that Tim Andrews recovered well enough from the transplant to leave the hospital a ...

NEWSCENTER 5. ALL RIGHT, SARA, THANK YOU. FOR THE SECOND TIME, MASS GENERAL HAS TRANSPLANTED A KIDNEY FROM A PIG TO A PERSON. IT’S JUST THE FOURTH TIME THIS PROCEDURE HAS BEEN DONE ANYWHERE IN ...

A 66-year-old man, Tim Andrews, has successfully undergone a pig kidney transplant, becoming the second person to do so. A 66-year-old man from New Hampshire, Tim Andrews, has become the second ...

A New Hampshire man has become the second person known to be living with a pig kidney A New Hampshire man fought for the chance at a pig kidney transplant, spending months getting into good enough ...