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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What Is a Kidney Cyst ... During the procedure, the surgeon will insert a thin, lighted viewing tube called a laparoscope and other instruments to drain the fluid from the cyst and remove or ...

including a thin tube with a light and camera called a laparoscope, to operate on you from the outside. Your surgeon will cut into your abdomen: one large cut for open surgery, or a few small ones ...

had received a human kidney in 2018, but it began to fail five years later. ”After his transplant, Rick said that one of the reasons he underwent this procedure was to provide hope for the ...

If both ears require tubes, the procedure is repeated on the other side. After the Procedure Once the procedure is done, your healthcare provider may pack your ears with cotton to catch any additional ...