A man’s infection of his heart implant was caused by handling and eating feral pig meat that was gifted to him by a hunter in Florida, doctors said. It is treatable ...

More than four years after a 77-year-old man walked into a Florida hospital with pain in his chest, a new report says preparing and eating feral pig meat was the likely cause of the man’s ...

Faucette, the second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig, has died, nearly six weeks after the highly experimental surgery, his doctors announced Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023.

The world's second pig heart transplant recipient has died six weeks after having the organ implanted, the University of Maryland Medical Center announced Tuesday. The patient, 58-year-old ...

Surgeons with the University of Maryland Medical Center were able to successfully transplant a pig’s heart into 58-year-old Lawrence Faucette on Wednesday, who was facing death with end-stage ...

A genetically modified pig’s heart transplanted into a man who later died took longer to generate a heartbeat than typical pig and human hearts.

A man’s infection of his heart implant was caused by handling and eating feral pig meat that was gifted to him by a hunter in Florida, doctors said. It is treatable ...

A man’s infection of his heart implant was caused by handling and eating feral pig meat that was gifted to him by a hunter in Florida, doctors said. It is treatable ...

A man’s infection of his heart implant was caused by handling and eating feral pig meat that was gifted to him by a hunter in Florida, doctors said. It is treatable ...

A man’s infection of his heart implant was caused by handling and eating feral pig meat that was gifted to him by a hunter in Florida, doctors said. It is treatable ...