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16 hours ago · Local News First person to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant dies nearly 2 months later More than 100,000 people are on the national waiting list for a transplant, most of them ...
16 hours ago · The top line: The first living person to receive a new kidney from a genetically modified pig has died nearly two months after the transplant. The bigger picture: In 2018, United States man ...
35 minutes ago · First person to receive pig kidney dies 7 weeks after transplant. Richard Slayman, a 62-year-old man who has end-stage renal disease, is the first patient to receive a kidney transplant from a pig ...
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- Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY
16 hours ago · The first person to have a pig kidney transplant has died nearly two months after the procedure. Richard "Rick" Slayman, 62, underwent the four-hour transplant at a hospital in Boston in March.
11 hours ago · They said they didn't have any indication that he died as a result of the transplant. The Weymouth, Massachusetts, man was the first living person to have the procedure. Previously, pig kidneys had been temporarily transplanted into brain-dead donors. Two men received heart transplants from pigs, although both died within months.
4 hours ago · To us, Rick was a kind-hearted man with a quick-witted sense of humor who was fiercely dedicated to his family, friends, and co-workers. After his transplant, Rick said that one of the reasons he ...
1 hour ago · The Milwaukee Police Department arrested a reckless driver after a fatal crash killed one person. The crash happened at 11:54 p.m. Saturday at the intersection of Appleton and Burleigh. Police ...
