A 54-year-old woman from New Jersey became the first patient to undergo a combined heart pump implant and pig kidney transplant, according to a medical center in New York. NYU Langone Health on ...

ATLANTA - Doctors at Emory University Healthcare made history by becoming the first group in the U.S. to successfully implant a new experimental heart pump designed to help patients dealing with heart ...

HCA Virginia’s Chippenham Hospital has started implanting mechanical heart pumps in advanced heart failure patients, partnering with VCU Medical Center to send patients there who qualify for heart ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a first-of-its-kind procedure, a terminally ill patient has become the first person in the world to undergo a gene-edited pig ...

Daughter Brittany Harvill and Lisa Pisano_1Lisa Pisano, 54, has become the first person to ever undergo a combined heart pump and pig kidney transplant operation. Pictured: Pisano (right) with her ...