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West Hartford man uses Facebook to find organ donor
WTNH-TV New Haven· 5 hours agoWEST HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — The shortage of donor organs is extreme, with 100,000 people in the U.S. desperately waiting for anorgan. Ken Ferrucci of...
Transplanted Pig Kidney Is Removed From Woman Who Received It | Fox 11 Tri Cities Fox 41 Yakima
FOX 11/41 Yakima· 3 days agoA woman who was the second person to ever receive a kidney from a genetically modified pig has had...
Transplanted Pig Kidney Is Removed From Patient
New York Times· 3 days agoSurgeons removed the kidney of a genetically engineered pig from a critically ill patient last week after the organ was damaged by inadequate blood flow...
19 Movie Premises So Ridiculous, They Could Only Have Been Green-Lit In The 2000s
BuzzFeed via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoThe man learns the woman, a recovering heart transplant patient, was given the heart of his deceased...
Mini organs are the solution to organ transplants
Hardwood Paroxysm· 6 days agoAn organ transplant is the only possible treatment for chronic diseases in which the organ stops working. The problem of finding donors ...
Artificial cornea makes 91-year-old an NHS first for sight-saving surgery
The Independent via Yahoo News· 4 days agohuman corneas for certain types of corneal graft patients. In maybe 10 or 20 years, this may become...
Second mosquito pool in southeast Austin tests positive for West Nile
KXAN via Yahoo News· 11 hours agoApproximately one in five people infected with West Nile virus develop symptoms such as:...
The Lens: Too many drivers, not enough demand in Chinese ride-hailing market
South China Morning Post· 5 days agoAs China’s ride-hailing market becomes more saturated, the negative impact of this phenomenon is now...
This Innovation Could Revolutionize Kidney Care of Black Patients
Capital B via Yahoo News· 3 days agoWhen the news hit this spring that the first genetically modified pig kidney was successfully ...
BMI OrganBank Announces Promising Preclinical Kidney Transplant Data for Novel Medical Device
The Herald-News· 5 days agoThis data was generated and published by the Duke University Ex Vivo Organ Laboratory (DEVOL) and highlights the promise of the BMI OrganBank technology to greatly expand ...