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US surgeons transplant pig kidney to live patient for second time
AFP via Yahoo News· 10 hours agoSurgeons in the United States have transplanted a modified pig kidney into a living person for the...
She Didn't Qualify for a Transplant—So Now She Has Two Pig Organs
Wired News· 14 hours agoA 54-year-old New Jersey woman has become the second living person to receive a genetically...
Relatives of those who died waiting for livers at now halted Houston transplant program seek answers
McComb Enterprise-Journal· 2 hours agoDALLAS (AP) — Several relatives of patients who died while waiting for a new liver said Wednesday they want to know if their loved ones were wrongfully denied a transplant ...
She was too sick for a traditional transplant. So she received a pig kidney and a heart pump
Grand Island Independent· 10 hours agoDoctors have transplanted a pig kidney into a New Jersey woman who was near death, part of a...
Families seek legal action over alleged Memorial Hermann organ transplant program irregularities
FOX 26 Houston· 1 hour agoFOX 26 Reporter Sherman Desselle has more about the temporary restraining order filed against a ...
New Jersey woman gets first-ever pig kidney transplant with mechanical heart pump
United Press International via Yahoo News· 12 hours agoThere are no documented instances of anyone with a mechanical heart pump receiving an organ ...
Henry Ford Health surgeon emphasizes importance of organ transplants in minority communities
ClickOnDetroit· 8 hours agoOne critical area of education that transplant specialists focus on is an improved understanding...
Surgeons perform first combined heart pump and pig kidney transplant
CNN via Yahoo News· 11 hours agoThe first transplant surgery to combine a mechanical heart pump as well as a gene-edited pig kidney...
Grandmother without long to live gets breakthrough pig kidney transplant
NY Post via Yahoo News· 10 hours agoThat surgery was performed by Dr. Robert Montgomery, who performed the world’s first gene-edited...