The RELIEF ureteral stent, the brainchild of Dr. Lee Ponksy, chairman of UH’s Urology Institute, has been cleared by the U.S.

There was no possibility of resecting the tumor or of instituting biliary drainage ... procedure. Only an occasional carcinoma of the gall bladder, hepatic-duct system, pancreas, kidney, colon ...

A feeding tube insertion procedure, which is also called a gastrostomy, is a surgery where a feeding tube is installed in the ...

Upon awakening in recovery, a colostomy bag will be attached to the abdomen over a new stoma and there may be one or more drainage tubes ... The procedure does not usually impact your lifespan.

How quickly you can pee after surgery is usually based on a few things: It's extremely rare, but sometimes a surgical error—such as accidentally cutting one of the tubes that transport ... allow the ...

Towana Looney, 53, is off of kidney dialysis after undergoing the procedure at NYU Langone Health on November 25. She was discharged from the hospital on December 6, and her doctors say she is in ...

A woman in Alabama is recovering after receiving a gene-edited pig kidney in a breakthrough surgery, which represents some of the earliest stages of research into animal transplants for humans.

Scientists have created the world's first test-tube organs in a breakthrough that ... an estimated 100,000 people suffer from some form of severe kidney disease. The NHS carries out approximately ...

After years on the transplant waitlist, Towana Looney, a 53-year-old grandmother from Alabama, has received a kidney from a gene-edited pig in a rare and groundbreaking procedure. The transplant ...

When antibiotics weren't working, she learned her daughter needed to get tubes in her ears ... eliminated the toddler from having to get the procedure done at a hospital. Reportedly only 300 ...

NYU Langone performs a new procedure for kidney replacement using pig organ Fox News senior medical contributor Dr. Marc Siegel joins ‘America Reports’ to explain the latest medical ...