A groundbreaking medical milestone was achieved with the first successful transplantation of a genetically engineered pig ...

Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have removed a pig kidney from a New Hampshire man 271 days after the innovative ...

A New Hampshire man lived with a pig kidney for a record 271 days before surgeons removed it last week as the organ's ...

A first comparison in the Journal of Hepatology of liver transplantation in Canada using organs donated after medical assistance in dying (MAiD) has shown good patient survival with outcomes similar ...

Organ donation following medical assistance in dying (MAiD), also known as euthanasia, is a relatively new practice both in ...

A health insurance dispute is preventing a North Carolina man from getting a cancer drug his doctors say is necessary.

Sam Rivers, Limp Bizkit bassist and founding member, is dead at 48, the band revealed in a statement calling him a "once-in-a ...

Abstract: Minimally invasive liver cancer treatments are increasingly favoured for their reduced risks and improved patient outcomes. However, real-time guidance during liver ablation remains ...

Doctors in China say they transplanted a genetically modified pig liver into a 71-year-old man who lived 171 days after the procedure, and 38 of those days were with the pig organ in place – a first ...

The transplanted portion of the genetically modified pig liver was removed after 38 days, and the patient, who had advanced liver cancer and cirrhosis, died several months later. By Roni Caryn Rabin ...

A new study in the Journal of Hepatology reports on an auxiliary liver xenotransplant from a genetically engineered pig to a living human recipient. The patient survived for 171 days, offering ...