An interesting note: Almost exactly 15 years earlier, on Dec. 3, 1967, a surgical team in Cape Town, South Africa, led by Dr.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Fifty-five years ago, heart surgeons Denton Cooley and Michael DeBakey set off a rivalry that helped establish Houston as a ...
Pig-to-human kidney transplants. A blood test for Alzheimer’s. Birth control without a prescription. These were just a few of ...
The claim that a child recipient of a heart transplant was able to help catch her donor's killer appeared to originate from a ...
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 ...
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 ...