A US hospital has denied 31-year-old DJ Ferguson a heart transplant - at least partly because he has not been vaccinated against Covid-19, the BBC reports. 31-year-old DJ Ferguson is in dire need of a new heart, but Brigham and Women's Hospital in…
A US Navy veteran who is one of four men who underwent penile transplants said he thought about suicide after losing both legs in Afghanistan but now feels "normal." Writes about this DailyMail. A veteran who underwent the fourth in the world and the most ...
Newark Beth Israel, a hospital that bills itself as the premier heart transplant center in New Jersey, has overestimated survival rates to maintain its funding. According to the New York Post, in one of the cases, a medical facility supported a patient with a brain-dead life support ...
Doctors at Boston Children's Hospital have developed a revolutionary transplant technique that could give babies with heart disease the chance to live a normal, healthy life. At the same time, children do not need new organs. Doctors transplant them directly into the dying heart mitochondria from the muscle cells of the child himself - and this experimental procedure shows record results, writes ...
The researchers found that there has been an increase in organ transplants across the country from drug overdose deaths. In 2016, 3533 organ transplants were performed using organs from overdose victims, up from 149 such transplants in 2000. In 2000, the victims ...
American scientists have managed to unprecedentedly modify the animal's genome, bringing it as close as possible to the human, which in the future may help to cope with the lack of organs for transplantation. According to the BBC, a group of scientists from the biotechnology company eGenesis was able to successfully remove 37 pigs contained in the DNA ...
Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston performed the first penis transplant in the United States. Thomas Manning, 64, of Halifax, Massachusetts, became the first patient in the United States to receive a transplant. Manning's own organ was amputated in connection with the discovery of ...
Three years after her brother's death, Rebecca Aversano decided to find out who got the face of her deceased relative. The girl found out who this man was and came to visit him. Seeing 39-year-old Richard Lee Norris, she could not contain her emotions. In 1997 ...
The first patient to volunteer for a head transplant was Valery Spiridonov, a thirty-year-old programmer from Vladimir with spinal muscular atrophy. Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero announced the preparation of a head transplant operation for 2017 at the end of February ...