Doctors remove pig kidney from an Alabama woman after a record 130 days

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An Alabama woman who lived with a pig kidney for a record 130 days had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it and is back on dialysis, doctors announced Friday - a disappointment in the ongoing quest for animal-to-human transplants.

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