A curious phenomenon has been reported among people who have undergone heart transplants. For some, they believe that they ...
The public feud between Dr. Denton Cooley and Dr. Michael DeBakey helped establish Houston as a breeding ground for medical ...
An interesting note: Almost exactly 15 years earlier, on Dec. 3, 1967, a surgical team in Cape Town, South Africa, led by Dr.
A young Graham, N.C., father became the second person in the world to receive a BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart (TAH) as a bridge to transplant, living with the device for 10 days before undergoing a ...
The claim that a child recipient of a heart transplant was able to help catch her donor's killer appeared to originate from a ...
New York State Police troopers rescued a woman, who was on her way to Cleveland Clinic in Ohio to undergo a heart transplant, ...
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Slayman's heart issues did not disqualify him from the procedure, which is reserved for the sickest of patients for whom all ...
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 ...
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 ...
Human skin cells have been reprogrammed into heart valve cells and then used to successfully transplant a pig heart valve ...
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.