The idea of using pig organs in humans is not new — one of the first recorded instances was in 1838, when a doctor transplanted a pig cornea into a human in an unsuccessful attempt to fix their ...

The Creole Pig: Haiti's Greatest Loss, a WLRN original production, reveals the devastating impact of the pig's eradication in 1978, sparked by an African swine flu outbreak, and how it ravaged ...

A New Hampshire man has become the second person known to be living with a pig kidney A New Hampshire man fought for the chance at a pig kidney transplant, spending months getting into good enough ...

So Andrews didn’t hesitate when his doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital asked whether he would consider an experimental transplant using a kidney from a donor pig. “All of a sudden ...

Looney has been living for 10 weeks with a kidney from a pig instead of her own. The longest anyone has survived with an organ from another species had been 60 days. The woman from Gadsen ...

Rooster and the Pig may be a modest Palm Springs strip mall home, but its cleverly resourceful takes on traditional Vietnamese cuisine and stylish urban ambiance have long made it one of the darli ...

A New Hampshire man fought for the chance at a pig kidney transplant, spending months getting into good enough shape to be part of a small pilot study of a highly experimental treatment.

A New Hampshire man fought for the chance at a pig kidney transplant, spending months getting into good enough shape to be part of a small pilot study of a highly experimental treatment. His ...