David Bennett Sr. had received a gene-altered pig heart in January as a last-chance option after he was "deemed ineligible" for a traditional heart transplant Julie Mazziotta is the Senior Sports ...

TV presenter and actor Christopher Biggins has revealed that he had a 'pig valve' inserted into his heart and without the controversial operation he would be dead. Speaking exclusively to the ...

Surgeons at the University of Maryland in the US have successfully completed the world's first pig to human heart transplant. Muhammad Mohiuddin, who co-founded the university's ...

The 57-year-old patient with a terminal heart condition, who became the first person to receive a genetically modified pig heart, has died Tuesday, the University of Maryland Medical Center in the ...

The transplant came after about a decade of earlier studies and transplants by Wang and his team of gene-edited organs 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 ...

The first person to receive a heart transplant from a genetically modified pig has died two months after the medical milestone, the hospital that carried out the surgery said Wednesday.

A Florida pastor with chest pain had an infection caused by feral pig meat, doctors said ... was being treated for type 2 diabetes and heart failure, and previously had a biventricular automated ...