Scientists have taken a decisive step toward ending one of transplant medicine’s most stubborn bottlenecks: the need to match donor organs to a recipient’s blood type. By chemically reengineering a ...

For those with kidney failure, a transplant is often the greatest promise of a healthier, longer life. Yet thousands wait years for a match that never comes. Incompatibility of blood type is one of ...

The kidney transplant evaluation process starts with a visit to a transplant nephrologist and a transplant surgeon. These doctors will discuss your health history and physically examine you. You will ...

Share on Pinterest Bariatric surgery may be better for preserving kidney function in people with diabetes and obesity than GLP-1 drugs. Image credit: Ruben Earth/Getty Images. In a new study, people ...

Kidney transplantation is often seen as a lifeline for people with end-stage kidney disease. It can give patients a second chance at life. But the roa.

A Cleveland Clinic study showed that in patients with type 2 diabetes, obesity, and chronic kidney disease, bariatric surgery was associated with a significant decrease in the progression of chronic ...

Different blood groups are no longer a barrier to kidney transplants in 2026. Expert explains how desensitization therapy and advanced immunology now make mismatched donor kidneys safe and highly ...

Kidney transplant recipients with type 2 diabetes treated with a new class of anti-obesity drugs were less likely to experience organ failure and survived longer, a new study shows. Not only is ...