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An act of compassion by a young man has ignited a chain reaction of kindness at Providence Swedish Hospital, resulting in five life-saving kidney transplants.
Thirteen years ago, one infant received a heart transplant from another infant. During National Donate Life Month, their ...
An Alabama woman who received a pig kidney transplant had the organ removed after her body began rejecting it.
Looney had the organ from her Nov. 25 transplant until early April. Dr. Robert Montgomery, Looney’s surgeon, said the ...
Looney, a 53-year-old-woman from Alabama, had been on dialysis for nine years before she received the pig kidney transplant in late November, becoming only the third person to receive a kidney from a ...
In a statement, she thanked her doctors for “the opportunity to be part of this incredible research.” Towana Looney, a pig ...
Surgeons at NYU Langone Health in New York City had to remove a genetically modified pig kidney from Towana Looney, 53, of ...
CHICAGO -- Bulls guard Lonzo Ball got to meet the family of the man who donated the knee cartilage he received in a transplant two years ago. Ball signed jerseys and took pictures before Wednesday ...
In an advancement for organ transplantation in Pakistan, Dow University Hospital has successfully conducted its 190th liver transplant under the guidance of international medical experts.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Vanderbilt University made Tennessee history after they became the first hospital to perform a successful kidney transplant with organ preservation technology.
In a groundbreaking medical achievement, Grace Davidson became the first woman in the UK to give birth after receiving a womb transplant from her sister, Amy Purdie. Overcoming Mayer-Rokitansky ...