After years of research into xenotransplantation, the field is at a turning point—yet risks and ethical issues remain ...

The device, to be tested in more people, could be used as a temporary measure for those waiting for a donor organ.

The patient, an Australian man in his 40s, lived with his fully functional heart implant long enough to be discharged from ...

More than four years after a 77-year-old man walked into a Florida hospital with pain in his chest, a new report says preparing and eating feral pig meat was the likely cause of the man’s yearslong ...

Doctors knew she needed a heart transplant. When a heart became available ... When she was 1 month old, doctors replaced it with a pig valve, but doctors told dad Kenan Frizzell that these ...

At 1 month old, she had hers replaced with a pig valve, but doctors warned that ... it was time for either a mechanical valve or a heart transplant. After Journi and her family agreed, Margaret ...