The occasion: The attempt at India’ first human heart transplant. That fortuitous February day was rife with expectation. Nearly three months ago, on December 3, 1967, South African Dr ...

South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard successfully performed the first human-to-human heart transplant. Since then, thousands of lives have been saved by this groundbreaking technology ...

OK, so there's really nothing humorous or easy about heart transplant surgery ... idea of what's involved in taking the heart of one human and making it work in another. Have no fear.

The public feud between Dr. Denton Cooley and Dr. Michael DeBakey helped establish Houston as a breeding ground for medical ...

Lab-grown ‘ghost hearts’ work to solve organ transplant shortage ... bioengineered human hearts in their lab with the goal of one day eliminating the need for heart transplants.

According to MIT Technology Review, it was the first genetically modified pig-to-human heart transplant. Opposition to these types of procedures is often focused on the fact that animal organs may ...

The properties are its veins, which closely resemble the blood vessels in a human heart. Creating an artificial heart with so ...

In a Newsweek essay about performing the first pig-heart transplant, Griffith described a "severe obstacle" that made Bennett ineligible for a human heart: He had a history of being "medically ...

Pig-to-human kidney transplants. A blood test for Alzheimer’s. Birth control without a prescription. These were just a few of ...

What happened on December 3 in world history? Here are 4 events worth remembering: See them above in our 57-second video, and below for more details! Get On This Day In History delivered straight ...

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 ...