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US surgeons transplant pig kidney to live patient for second time
AFP via Yahoo News· 5 days 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· 6 days agoA 54-year-old New Jersey woman has become the second living person to receive a genetically...
Surgeons perform first combined heart pump and pig kidney transplant
ABC Action News Tampa Bay· 6 days agoThe first transplant surgery to combine a mechanical heart pump as well as a gene-edited pig kidney...
SMART LIVING: HIV positive and donating organs
WAFB Baton Rouge· 15 hours agoOne woman is working with lawmakers to change the system, allowing more people, even people who are HIV positive, to donate their organs. More than one...
She was too sick for a traditional transplant. So she received a pig kidney and a heart pump
Hartford Courant· 6 days agoDoctors have transplanted a pig kidney into a New Jersey woman who was near death, part of a...
Pig Kidney Transplants Are Medicine’s New Arms Race
Bloomberg· 17 hours agoCompanies are vying to end the shortage in donated organs. The real winners will be the patients struggling to get off the wait-list. Lisa Jarvis is a...
NYU Doctors Perform First-Ever Pig Kidney Transplant Combined With Heart Pump Implant
Gizmodo· 6 days agoAnother milestone in pig-to-human transplantation has been crossed, with doctors at New York...
Grandmother without long to live gets breakthrough pig kidney transplant
NY Post via Yahoo News· 5 days agoThat surgery was performed by Dr. Robert Montgomery, who performed the world’s first gene-edited...
New Jersey woman gets first-ever pig kidney transplant with mechanical heart pump
United Press International via Yahoo News· 5 days ago"After I was ruled out for a human transplant, I learned I didn't have a lot of time left." But...
Woman becomes 1st patient to undergo combined heart pump implant, pig kidney transplant
FOX 11 Green Bay· 6 days agoA 54-year-old woman from New Jersey became the first patient to undergo a combined heart pump...