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

Life for Towana Looney hasn’t been easy. After giving her mother one of her kidneys in 1999, the Alabama woman thought the ...

An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it ...

An Alabama woman had her pig kidney transplant removed at NYU Langone Health and is back on dialysis after having it in place ...

A pig kidney kept an Alabama woman alive for five months - longer than anyone ever before. Doctors aren't sure yet why it suddenly stopped.

Surgeons at NYU Langone Health in New York City had to remove a genetically modified pig kidney from Towana Looney, 53, of Gadsden, Ala., because her body rejected the organ. She's back on dialysis.

A Black woman who had the longest stint with a pig kidney transplant must return to dialysis after her body rejected the ...

An Alabama woman who received a pig kidney transplant had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it.

Towana Looney is recovering well from the April 4 removal surgery at NYU Langone Health and has returned home to Gadsden, Alabama. In a statement, she thanked her doctors for “the opportunity to ...