Salisbury, MD.- The 2024 Salisbury Kidney Walk is just around the corner. Cris Henderson of Laurel is sharing her story after helping her husband battle kidney cancer. Her husband Rick had one of his kidneys removed to treat the cancer. At that same time, they discovered that his second kidney was only functioning at 24%. Throughout their journey, Cris and
Richard Slayman of Weymouth made history when he received the world's first
Researchers have found a new protein target for senescence-related kidney diseases and published their findings in Aging Cell. Kidney disease and fatty acid use Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is all
A man with end-stage renal disease who earlier this year became the first human to receive a new kidney from a genetically modified pig has died, Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston said.
Massachusetts General Hospital says there's no indication that Ricard
By Brendan Pierson(Reuters) - A man with end-stage renal disease who earlier this year became the first human to receive a new kidney from a genetically modified pig has died, Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston said."The Mass General transplant team is deeply saddened at the sudden passing of Mr. Rick Slayman," the hospital said in a statement on Saturday. "We have no indication that it was the result of his recent transplant."Slayman, 62, of Weymouth, Massachusetts, received the...
Maritza Ventresca recently received news that she has been matched with a living donor.
Instead of ostentatious virtue signaling, doctors should spend more time listening to patients than talking at them.
In a groundbreaking medical procedure that captured global attention, 62-year-old Richard Slayman made history as the first person to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically modified pig. However, just seven weeks after the pioneering surgery, Slayman tragically passed away. Slayman died at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, the same facility where he underwent the […] The post First Human to Receive Pig Kidney Transplant Dies at 62 first appeared on The Source.
A 62-year-old man has died months after becoming the world’s first living recipient of a genetically edited pig kidney transplant, hailed as a medical milestone. Rick Slayman received the kidney at Massachusetts General in March after he had been diagnosed with end-stage kidney disease last year. The hospital emphasized there is no indication his death was a result of the transplant. After undergoing the four-hour surgery at the recommendation of his doctors, Slayman, a manager with the...
No indication that Richard ‘Rick’ Slayman’s receipt of genetically modified kidney caused his death, says Massachusetts transplant teamThe first recipient of a genetically modified pig kidney transplant has died about two months later, with the hospital that performed the surgery saying it did not have any indication the transplant was the cause.Richard “Rick” Slayman had the transplant at Massachusetts general hospital in March at the age of 62. Surgeons said they believed the pig kidney would...
Two years ago, businesswoman Nicola Hinds (pictured) was suicidal after being badly treated by her previous employers while pregnant with her second child.