An interesting note: Almost exactly 15 years earlier, on Dec. 3, 1967, a surgical team in Cape Town, South Africa, led by Dr.
The public feud between Dr. Denton Cooley and Dr. Michael DeBakey helped establish Houston as a breeding ground for medical ...
News of the first human-to-human heart transplant, led by South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard, made headlines around the world. Journalists and film crews flooded into Cape Town's Groote ...
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.
The claim that a child recipient of a heart transplant was able to help catch her donor's killer appeared to originate from a ...
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 ...
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 ...
Pig-to-human kidney transplants. A blood test for Alzheimer’s. Birth control without a prescription. These were just a few of ...
"It was one of the most incredible things, to see a pig heart pounding away and beating inside a human chest," Dr. Robert Montgomery, director of NYU Langone Transplant Institute where the ...