A genetically engineered pig kidney has been removed from a transplant patient after it started losing function, according to a statement on Friday from NYU Langone Health. The patient, 54-year-old Lisa Pisano of New Jersey, is stable and has started dialysis, her doctors said. Pisano first received a mechanical heart pump, called an LVAD, on April […]
PATERSON — Her lung disease took from E. Denise Peoples one of the joys of her life — singing. “It’s hard to sing when you can’t breathe,” she said. But Peoples — who grew up in Paterson — had a double lung transplant about 17 years ago. And this month, the 60-year-old sang the national […]
STORY: DR. LEONARDO RIELLA: “So at this time, there’s no indication that the kidney transplant had any influence on his death….” :: Massachusetts General Hospital Doctors say they don’t believe the man who received the world’s first pig kidney transplant died because of the transplanted organ. Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital announced 62-year-old Rick Slayman’s death […]
The first person to receive a pig kidney transplant, 62-year-old Richard Slayman, has died, just shy of two months after undergoing the groundbreaking procedure at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), the facility announced in a May 11 statement. Despite Slayman’s death, his family and surgeons expressed no regret that he’d undergone the procedure and remain hopeful […]
A Massachusetts man has died nearly two months after he made history as the first recipient of a genetically modified pig kidney transplant, his family and the hospital that performed the procedure announced Saturday. Richard Slayman, 62, had the transplant at Massachusetts General Hospital in March, when surgeons predicted the pig kidney would last for […]
FILE – Melissa Mattola-Kiatos, RN, nursing practice specialist, removes the pig kidney from its box to prepare for transplantation at Massachusetts General Hospital, March 16, 2024, in Boston. Richard “Rick” Slayman, the first recipient of a genetically modified pig kidney transplant, has died nearly two months after he underwent the procedure, his family and the […]
ABILENE, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) — The community united to raise more than $30,000 for a local business co-owner in need of a heart transplant. David Bradshaw is the co-owner of the Dixie Pig and has recently had complications from a long-term heart condition. Bradshaw’s friends and family held a benefit for him to shower him with […]
Four years after the COVID-19 pandemic hit the U.S., Miami-Dade County Public Schools are still struggling with learning losses that disproportionately impacted students of low-income background. Now local officials hope a $9 million donation from billionaire, philanthropist and Citadel CEO Kenneth Griffin will help, by expanding intensive math tutoring for students in grades sixth to […]
For the first time, a genetically modified pig kidney has been transplanted into a 62-year-old man by surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital, the facility announced Thursday. Transplanting animal organs into humans is becoming more common, but these procedures remain rare and have yet to significantly extend patients’ lives. Amid an ongoing organ shortage, experts say […]
A 62-year-old man suffering from end-stage renal disease has become the first living recipient of a kidney transplant from a genetically modified pig, surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital announced on Thursday, March 21. The four-hour surgery, performed at the Boston hospital on March 16, marks a “major milestone in the quest to provide more readily […]
Doctors in the US have announced they have transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a 62-year-old patient. Massachusetts General Hospital said it is the first time a genetically modified pig kidney has been transplanted into a living person. Previously, pig kidneys have been temporarily transplanted into brain-dead donors. Also, two men received heart […]
“I can’t sleep. I can’t concentrate on the everyday things I have to do because I’m worried about my little daughter,” said the victim’s father Enrique Sandoval GoFundMe Marlene Sandoval A 32-year-old woman was brutally attacked last Wednesday during a robbery at the beauty store she manages in Commerce, Calif., reports ABC News 7, NBC […]