(NEXSTAR) — The first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig has died, two months after the groundbreaking experiment, the Maryland hospital that performed the surgery announced Wednesday.

One month after an experimental procedure to transplant the heart of a genetically modified pig into a patient with end-stage heart disease, doctors say the heart is functioning on its own and shows ...

Each year, thousands of people in the U.S. die waiting for donated organs. A new book shares how organs from other species could change that.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. David Bennett Jr. with his family at their home in Willow Springs, N.C. David Bennett Jr. knelt by his bedside, phone in hand, ...

NEW YORK -- Doctors have transplanted a pig kidney into a New Jersey woman who was near death, part of a dramatic pair of surgeries that also stabilized her failing heart. Lisa Pisano's combination of ...

The first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig did not die due to his body rejecting the organ, according to doctors at the University of Maryland. Instead, doctors said the heart failed ...

In the early hours of January 7, 2022, David Bennett was out of options. At just 57 years old, he was bedridden, on life support, and in desperate need of a heart transplant for which he was ...

A 57-year-old Maryland man is doing well three days after receiving a genetically modified pig heart in a first-of-its-kind transplant surgery, University of Maryland Medicine said in a news release ...