An Omaha woman’s trip to the emergency room for a ruptured appendix led to the discovery of a two-pound kidney stone — and a ...

A South Florida father got a second chance at life thanks to a kidney donated by his own daughter, and the procedure for the ...

Kidney removal, medically known as a nephrectomy, is a major surgical procedure performed to treat kidney disease, cancer, or to enable a healthy individual to donate a kidney. While the operation can ...

CHICAGO (WSVN) — A man is recovering after he underwent a kidney operation while being wide awake. The Illinois man had a “pioneering procedure,” a first-of-its-kind procedure. “I had been given a lot ...

Have you heard of ureteral stents? They are devices used in urological surgery. PubMed Central (Central European Journal of ...

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 ...

A transplant surgeon at the University of Iowa Health Care performed the first robotic surgery for a living kidney donation.

Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital on Thursday said they have transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a human living with kidney disease, the first such procedure in the world. The ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — Dana Bottoms is feeling a renewed sense of hope after receiving a kidney transplant — a procedure she has awaited for four years. “I can’t believe it’s actually here,” she said. In ...