A New Hampshire man has become the second person known to be living with a pig kidney. Massachusetts General Hospital announced Friday that Tim Andrews recovered well enough after the Jan. 25 transplant to leave the hospital a week later. Andrews calls himself “a new man,” free from two years of dialysis. He’s the first of three patients in a Mass General pilot study of pig kidneys provided by biotech eGenesis. Another pig supplier, United Therapeutics, is set to begin a slightly larger clinical trial soon, to help tell if pigs might ease the organ shortage. A New Hampshire man has become the second person known to be living with a pig kidney. Massachusetts General Hospital announced Friday that Tim Andrews recovered well enough after the Jan. 25 transplant to leave the hospital a week later. Andrews calls himself “a new man,” free from two years of dialysis. He’s the first of three patients in a Mass General pilot study of pig kidneys provided by biotech eGenesis. Another pig supplier, United Therapeutics, is set to begin a slightly larger clinical trial soon, to help tell if pigs might ease the organ shortage. AP Technology and Science
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