Fifty-five years ago, heart surgeons Denton Cooley and Michael DeBakey set off a rivalry that helped establish Houston as a ...
An interesting note: Almost exactly 15 years earlier, on Dec. 3, 1967, a surgical team in Cape Town, South Africa, led by Dr.
The claim that a child recipient of a heart transplant was able to help catch her donor's killer appeared to originate from a ...
Pig-to-human kidney transplants. A blood test for Alzheimer’s. Birth control without a prescription. These were just a few of ...
New York State Police troopers rescued a woman, who was on her way to Cleveland Clinic in Ohio to undergo a heart transplant, ...
The world’s first pediatric heart transplant (which was also the first human-to-human heart transplant in the United States) was performed at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, on this ...
Slayman's heart issues did not disqualify him from the procedure, which is reserved for the sickest of patients for whom all ...
Human skin cells have been reprogrammed into heart valve cells and then used to successfully transplant a pig heart valve ...
David Bennett had received the transplant Jan ... knowledge learning that the genetically modified pig heart can function well inside the human body as long as the immune system is properly ...
Richard Slayman, the first successful recipient of a pig-to-human kidney transplant, died in May from heart complications unrelated to the procedure, according to Massachusetts General Hospital.