Cutting-Edge Cancer Therapy Offers Hope for Patients With Lupus

Lupus can be debilitating and sometimes deadly for the 3 million people who have it. A treatment called CAR T appears to stop it in its tracks.

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Pig Kidney Removed From Alabama Woman After Organ Rejection

Towana Looney lived with the kidney longer than any other transplant patient had tolerated an organ from a genetically modified animal.

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For Patients Needing Transplants, Hope Arrives on Tiny Hooves

Some scientists are confident that organs from genetically modified pigs will one day be routinely transplanted into humans. But substantial ethical questions remain.

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Pope Francis, in Critical Condition, Is ‘Resting’ in Hospital, Vatican Says

Francis is being treated for pneumonia, a complex infection and kidney problems that have left him in critical condition.

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Surgeons Transplant Engineered Pig Kidney Into Fourth Patient

A 66-year-old man from New Hampshire became the fourth person to receive a pig’s kidney.

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F.D.A. Approves Studies of Pig Organ Transplants for Kidney Patients

The research offers hope to tens of thousands of patients with kidney failure who are on a long waiting list for an organ transplant.

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F.D.A. Approves Ozempic to Treat Kidney Disease

The decision will further broaden the use of the blockbuster drug.

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Alabama Woman Receives Nation’s Third Pig Kidney Transplant

The patient, Towana Looney, was in better health than previous recipients, and her case could signal progress toward solving the organ-supply shortage.

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