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Behind the story of the decades-long journey of xenotransplantation
In this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauran Neergaard and Shelby Lum, who have been following the ...
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Uber for Organs: This Alumna’s Tech Is Changing the Transplant Universe
Laura Epstein’s new company is delivering lifesaving kidneys and hearts to those most in need faster than ever.
The Root4d
Sad News For Ala. Black Woman Who Received Historic, Successful Pig Kidney Transplant
Life for Towana Looney hasn’t been easy. After giving her mother one of her kidneys in 1999, the Alabama woman thought the ...
First UK birth after womb transplant is a medical breakthrough—but raises important ethical questions
A baby girl named Amy Isabel has become the first child in the UK to be born to a mother who has had a womb transplant. Amy is one of around 65 children worldwide born as a result of pioneering ...
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Pig Kidney Removed After Historic Transplant in Alabama Woman
This is still progress in animal-to-human transplants, doctors say TUESDAY, April (HealthDay News) — Doctors have removed a ...
Woman, 32, Gets Hysterectomy Due to Tumor on Her Ovary. Doctors Later Apologize When Biopsy Shows No Cancer
Rhian Butlin, 32, underwent an unnecessary hysterectomy after doctors thought a tumor on her ovary was cancerous.
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Longest living pig kidney transplant recipient has organ removed
The longest-living recipient of a genetically engineered pig kidney has had the organ removed after experiencing acute organ rejection, surgeons at New York City-based NYU Langone told The New York ...