Southern California boy receives partial heart transplant, making history in California
History was made after a team of surgeons successfully performed a pediatric partial heart transplant in Southern California ...
MGH performs its second, world’s fourth genetically altered pig kidney transplant
The recipient was Tim Andrews, a 66-year-old New Hampshire resident who had end-stage kidney disease and was on dialysis for ...
New Hampshire man living with a pig kidney weeks after rare transplant
A Concord man is the latest recipient of an unusual procedure: He's had his kidney replaced with one from a pig.
OU Children’s Hospital raising awareness during American Heart Month
February is known as American Heart Month and OU Children’s Hospital kicked it off by spreading awareness about the number one birth defect in children, which is congenital heart defects.
Woman turns mother’s heart transplant journey into women’s heart health advocacy
Friday is National Go Red Day, an initiative by the American Heart Association that aims to raise awareness for ...
NH man becomes 2nd person known to be living with a pig kidney
Mass General Brigham has announced the successful completion of another gene-edited pig kidney transplant, the first of a ...
Experimental transplants with organs from gene-edited pigs see major steps forward
On Friday, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital announced that a 66-year-old New Hampshire man had successfully received ...
Surgeons Transplant Engineered Pig Kidney Into Fourth Patient
It was the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States, and the first of three that will be done at Mass General as part of a new clinical trial sanctioned by the Food and Drug Administration.
Pig kidney transplant successfully completed at Massachusetts hospital
For the second time in less than a year, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital have transplanted a genetically-edited pig ...