20 after his own heart began to fail. He was not a candidate for a human heart transplant because his medical condition was so severe. Faucette, a Navy veteran and father of two, seemed to be ...

A very different kind of “hog farm” being built by United Therapeutics Corp. on the edge of Stewartville to raise gene-edited ...

A new article published in The New England Journal of Medicine has offered insights into the world’s first pig-to-human heart transplant, which took place earlier this year. The researchers ...

Bennett’s father, David Bennett Sr., had severe congestive heart failure and wasn’t a candidate for a human transplant. He knew he would likely die soon. There was nothing more to do — other ...

But the patient had what the researchers refer to as "poor adherence to treatment," which led four different transplant programs to deny him a human heart transplant. At that point, he and his ...

An 11-year-old boy recently became the first person in the world to have an artificial heart valve replaced with a living ...

A pig's liver has been transplanted into a human recipient for the ... the first pig-to-monkey liver transplant. Previous studies into kidney and heart transplants from pigs to humans have also ...

On Wednesday, Justin and his father, Jamel Cauthen, both of Jamaica, Queens, came to the atrium at Cohen’s for a news ...