Malorie Blackman’s novel about 13-year-old schoolboy Cameron whose failing heart is replaced with that of a pig to give him a chance of survival, was a massive success in the late 1990s, spawning a ...

She is also the longest-surviving recipient, having lived with a pig kidney for 71 days as of Tuesday. David Bennett of Maryland received a pig heart in 2022 and survived 60 days.

One big question was cardiac fitness: Mass General’s first pig kidney recipient had underlying heart disease that killed him. But Riella said intense exams showed Andrews’ “heart was in ...

Mohiuddin, who in 2022 led the first pig-heart transplant into a living person, says he is in the process of submitting a request to the FDA to start clinical trials, but adds that the heart is a ...

So Andrews didn’t hesitate when his doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital asked whether he would consider an experimental transplant using a kidney from a donor pig. “All of a sudden ...

One of the Maryland transplant patients showed evidence of a pig virus in the transplanted heart, highlighting concerns that so-called zoonotic viruses could transfer along with the transplant.

Cell-Based Therapy Improves Outcomes in a Pig Model of Heart Attacks Jan. 7, 2025 — In a large-animal model study, researchers have found that heart attack recovery is aided by injection of ...

THE sister of a boy kept alive on an artificial heart machine is pleading for a new organ for him. Fifteen-month-old Ezra Crawford is the youngest person in Britain using the medical device.