For eight months US man Tim Andrews has been living with a pig kidney in his body. "Sometimes it's the only thing I can think about, keeping Wilma alive," he said. "Wilma is my kidney, we named her ...

A unique feat has occurred in the history of medical science, offering renewed hope to doctors and kidney patients around the world. Doctors in the United States successfully transplanted a pig kidney ...

A genetically modified pig kidney kept a 66-year-old US man with end-stage kidney disease off dialysis for nine months before he received a human donor kidney, in what researchers describe as a world ...

Timothy (“Tim”) Andrews, age 78, passed away unexpectedly on June 18, 2026, in Fort Myers, Florida. Tim was born in Canton, Ohio, on March 8, 1948, to Eugene and Thelma Andrews. He graduated from ...

A New Hampshire man fought for the chance at a pig kidney transplant, spending months getting into good enough shape to be part of a small pilot study of a highly experimental treatment. His effort ...

MISSION HE’S NOW TAKING ON JESSICA. YEAH. THAT’S RIGHT. TIM ANDREWS SPENT MORE THAN TWO YEARS ON DIALYSIS FOR END STAGE KIDNEY DISEASE. IT TOOK A TOLL ON NEARLY EVERY PART OF HIS LIFE. SO HE TOOK A ...

A 67-year-old man set a new record for living with a genetically modified pig kidney, nearly reaching the nine-month mark before doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston removed the organ ...