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Weight-Loss Supplement Linked to Liver Failure Case
A healthy 35-year-old woman who took a weight-loss supplement developed liver failure, and needed a liver transplant, according to a new report of her case.
'Poop Pills' Work Just As Well As Traditional Fecal Transplants
"Poop transplants" given as a pill may work just as well as those delivered via colonoscopy, and the pill form may be a more pleasant treatment method for patients, a new study from Canada finds.
Scientists revived the cells of pigs an hour after death, a potential organ transplant breakthrough
Scientists revitalized cells in the bodies of dead pigs.
2 pig hearts were successfully transplanted into brain-dead human patients
Surgeons successfully transplanted pig hearts into brain-dead patients, advancing toward the next stage of FDA trials.
3 kids receive kidney transplants without need for immune-suppressing drugs
Three children with a rare genetic disease received kidney transplants without the need for any immune-suppressing drugs.
1st-of-its-kind heart transplant in infant could prevent organ rejection
The novel procedure involves transplanting a heart along with thymus tissue from the same donor.
Man who received 1st pig heart transplant has died
The exact cause of the man's death is still unclear.
How did doctors perform surgery before modern anesthesia?
The history of anesthesia in surgery was grisly, painful and occasionally very dubious.
