Alabama, chronic kidney disease

Alabama woman receives genetically modified pig kidney in rare animal transplant
A woman in Alabama is recovering after receiving a gene-edited pig kidney in a breakthrough surgery, which represents some of the earliest stages of research into animal transplants for humans.
An Alabama Woman Got a Gene-Edited Pig Kidney Transplant. Three Weeks Later, She Has 'Never Felt Better'
An Alabama woman has “never felt better” after receiving a kidney from a genetically modified pig, reports the New York Times’ Roni Caryn Rabin. When she underwent transplant surgery last month, Towana Looney,
'She was waiting for a 1-in-a-million match': Alabama woman is the 3rd patient to ever get a pig kidney
Last month, a woman became the third living person to receive a pig kidney. Now, her kidney function is completely normal, and she's off dialysis. The transplant recipient — Towana Looney, 53, of Alabama — had donated a kidney to her mother back in 1999.
Alabama Woman Receives Nation’s Third Pig Kidney Transplant
The patient, Towana Looney, was in better health than previous recipients, and her case could signal progress toward solving the organ-supply shortage.
After years on transplant wait list, Alabama grandmother receives kidney from gene-edited pig
Towana Looney is the only person in the world living with a functional pig kidney. But her doctor predicts that in less than a decade, pig-to-human organ transplants like hers could become routine.
An Alabama woman is doing well after the latest experimental pig kidney transplant
An Alabama woman received a pig kidney transplant last month and is free from dialysis for the first time eight years.
Alabama Woman In ‘Extraordinary’ Health After Third-Ever Pig Kidney Transplant, Doctors Say
An Alabama woman is in “extraordinary” health after becoming the third living person to receive a pig kidney transplant, NYU Langone Health announced Tuesday, as doctors say the increasingly studied procedure could aid thousands of people waiting for organ donors.
Alabama woman is recovering well after receiving a pig kidney, doctors say
An Alabama woman is doing well after she received a pig kidney transplant last month, doctors have said. Towana Looney is the fifth American to be given a gene-edited pig organ. The experimental procedure was done at New York’s NYU Langone Transplant Institute last month.
Years after donating a kidney, Alabama woman receives one from a pig
She became the third human to receive a genetically engineered pig’s kidney, raising hopes for thousands of Americans on the waiting list for organ transplants.
Pig kidneys, crime-fighting Santa: Down in Alabama
Alabama’s Towana Looney donated a kidney to her mother 25 years ago, according to an Associated Press report. She later had complications with her remaining kidney and eventually went on dialysis. She developed antibodies that doctors say would’ve rejected any donated kidney.
Woman receives pig kidney transplant, walks out of hospital days later: ‘Second chance'
Towana Looney of Alabama received a successful pig kidney transplant. NYU Langone Drs. Robert Montgomery and Marc Siegel comment on what this means for the future of transplant accessibility.
New York Post4d
Alabama woman’s condition revealed after latest experimental pig kidney transplant
An Alabama woman is recovering well after a pig kidney transplant last month that freed her from eight years of dialysis, the latest effort to save human lives with animal organs. Towana Looney ...
Central Illinois Proud4d
Alabama woman doing well after experimental pig kidney transplant
Towana Looney is the fifth American given a gene-edited pig organ — and notably, she isn’t as sick as prior recipients who ...