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 ...

FILE PHOTO: A laboratory technician makes a blood typing of donor blood in Munich, Germany, September 5, 2016. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle/File Photo (This is an excerpt of the Health Rounds newsletter, ...

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 ...

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.

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 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 ...