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Indian heart beats inside Pakistani woman, 19-year-old from Karachi undergoes heart transplant in Chennai
A 19-year-old patient from Karachi in Pakistan, Ayesha Rashid, underwent a successful heart transpl…
ANI
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Social disadvantage is transplantable! Cancer patients’ recovery gets influenced by their cell donors’ socioeconomic status: Study
New research has found how one's position on the socioeconomic ladder can not only shape one’s phys…
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Insider Today: Hair transplants in Istanbul
In Saturday's edition of Insider Today, we're following one writer's journey to Istanbul to get hai…
Joi-Marie McKenzie
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Toni Braxton says she was told to hide her lupus diagnosis because 'people get scared around sick celebrities'
Toni Braxton was diagnosed with lupus in 2008. The singer said that being upfront about her lupus d…
Amanda Goh
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Hearts from Covid-positive donors appear safe for transplantation: Study
Donor hearts from people who were Covid-positive appeared to be as safe for transplantation as thos…
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A healthy 35-year-old woman went into heart failure moments after delivering her baby, and now she's waiting for a transplant
Zuleyma Santos had a healthy pregnancy and no heart disease history. Her husband fought cancer as s…
Anna Medaris Miller
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Scientists rejoice as pig kidney continues to function in human body after 32 days
In a ray of hope for thousands of kidney transplant patients, surgeons at New York University Lango…
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New heart treatment to help grow a replacement valve inside body
Replacement heart valves that grow inside the body may be a step closer to reality. The results are…
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New MRI technique set to transform heart transplant care
The days of heart transplant survivors undergoing invasive biopsies could soon be over after a new …
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2 more gene-edited pig hearts were just successfully transplanted into humans an early sign that pig transplants could really work
Two humans received pig hearts at NYU this summer. Both patients were already brain-dead and on ven…
Hilary Brueck
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An 8-year-old boy died in a freak accident, but his family says someone received his heart in a transplant
Eli Hill's mother Ashley Hill told WKYT he had a "golden heart" that someone received in a transpla…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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A woman dismissed her exhaustion as anxiety, asthma, and menopause. She actually needed a heart transplant and brain surgery.
Ann Ramirez Dudas was 48 when she was diagnosed with congestive heart failure. She would need a new…
Andrea Michelson
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Tiger Woods helped a young fan cross off a bucket-list wish following her heart transplant
Tiger Woods returned to the PGA Tour at the Genesis Invitational and made one young fan's dream com…
Cork Gaines
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A man who survived a pig heart transplant contracted a viral infection tied to pigs and died two months after the surgery
"At Day 45, he looked really funky," the doctor who performed the transplant said. "Something happe…
Azmi Haroun
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Alaska man misses lifesaving heart transplant surgery after winter storm cancels flight to Seattle, report says
Patrick Holland had eight hours to get from Alaska to Seattle, Washington, for a heart transplant. …
Joshua Zitser
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A Boston hospital is the latest to deny an organ transplant to a patient who refused to get vaccinated against COVID-19
Vaccination requirements are not uncommon for transplant patients, since they take medications that…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The first pig-heart transplant patient was denied a human heart after failing to follow doctors' orders
Patients who miss appointments or forget medication may be denied a spot on the organ waiting list.…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Recipient of first pig-heart transplant dies 2 months after surgery
The University of Maryland Medical Center didn't give an official cause of death, but did say the h…
Rebecca Cohen
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Scientists created a fish from human stem cells that swims on its own. The bizarre experiment could one day help them build hearts from scratch.
The artificial fish is a bioengineering feat, but there are immense hurdles to overcome before scie…
Marianne Guenot
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The recipient of a historic pig-heart transplant stabbed a man years ago. Ethicists say criminal history shouldn't affect who gets lifesaving organs.
The stabbing left its victim paralyzed, and raises ethical questions about who deserves lifesaving …