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 ...

Lawrence Faucette, the recipient of the world’s second genetically modified pig heart transplant, has died nearly 6 weeks after the surgery, the University of Maryland Medical Center said.

Pig farming and meat processing involve a meticulous series of steps to ensure efficiency, sustainability, and quality. It begins with breeding and raising pigs in well-maintained environments ...

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 ...

Dying man saved by second-ever pig heart transplant is alive one month later: ‘I’ll work it out’ By . Associated Press. Published Oct. 20, 2023, 7:16 p.m. ET. Explore More ...

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 ...

Bennet, 57, had been bedridden and hooked up to a lifesaving heart-lung bypass machine for eight weeks with end-stage heart failure before the transplant with the genetically modified pig heart.

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 ...

For the second time ever, a pig heart has been transplanted into a living human recipient, the University of Maryland Medical Center announced on Friday.

WASHINGTON — The second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig has died, nearly six weeks after the highly experimental surgery, his Maryland doctors announced Tuesday.

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 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 ...