Washington — The risk of people who volunteer to donate kidneys dying during surgery is even lower than doctors have long thought, researchers reported Wednesday. The...
When US surgeons transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a living human in March, it was seen as a major milestone in the quest to...
Lawrence Faucette, a 58-year-old United States veteran, was dying of heart failure and had explored nearly every avenue for a life-saving transplant. Amidst the uncertainty, a...
NEW YORK — Mary Miller-Duffy was dazed and grieving. Her brother suddenly collapsed and days later was brain-dead. Now she faced a tough question: Would she...
In a recent study published in Journal of the American College of Cardiologyinvestigators investigated the use of donors infected with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), donor and...
For the first time, doctors were able to use a pig-collected kidney to attach it to a human. Throughout the period of transplantation and observation, the...
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