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 ...
Pig-to-human kidney transplants. A blood test for Alzheimer’s. Birth control without a prescription. These were just a few of ...
An interesting note: Almost exactly 15 years earlier, on Dec. 3, 1967, a surgical team in Cape Town, South Africa, led by Dr.
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 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 ...
"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 ...
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 ...