An interesting note: Almost exactly 15 years earlier, on Dec. 3, 1967, a surgical team in Cape Town, South Africa, led by Dr.

In 1912, Cushing performed the first reported transplant of a human pituitary gland from a stillborn fetus into an adult male with symptoms of hypopituitarism. The patient was an ideal candidate ...

This is why more research is critical to improving the techniques, and hopefully, one day, paving the way for the first human transplant with a human-pig hybrid organ. But that day is years ...

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The first man to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant has died two months after the operation, the hospital which carried out the procedure has said. Richard "Rick" Slayman, 62 ...

Surgeons in New York have become the first in the world to complete a fully robotic double lung transplant. NYU Langone ...

The death of a Weymouth man two months after undergoing what his doctors at Mass General Hospital described as the first ...