The historic surgery, resulting from years of research, opens the door to improved treatment of non-functioning bladders.

Wendy Rappaport has filed a lawsuit alleging that her healthy kidney was removed instead of her spleen, leaving her with ...

The person who received the bladder is doing well, and the successful transplant could offer hope to thousands of people with bladder dysfunction.

Paraneoplastic syndromes affect multiple organs and are a central cause of mortality in cancer patients. In this issue, Cong et al ( 2025) report an inflammatory gut-kidney axis mediating systemic ...

In an eight-hour procedure at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, surgeons from UCLA Health and Keck Medicine of USC performed ...

Bladder transplants have not been done previously, in part because of the complicated vascular structure of the pelvic area.

Surgeons at a hospital in Los Angeles, California have successfully performed the world's first human bladder transplant, ...

Kidney disease is one of the leading causes of death and suffering in the 21st century. In 2017, the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Chronic Kidney Disease ...

Surgeons from Keck Medicine of USC and UCLA Health have performed the world's first-in-human bladder transplant.

Scientists report that they have learned how certain combinations of rearranged genes can promote the progression of a rare ...

The growing presence of microplastics in our food and water supply has raised serious concerns about their effects on human ...