Surgeons

An unvaccinated mother who gave birth to her son while she was in a coma battling Covid is now back home and able to cuddle him as she continues to recover from the virus.Sophie Byrne, from Dovecot, didn't know her son Joseph had been…

In a first, surgeons have successfully attached a pig's kidney to a human and monitored the pinkish organ function normally for more than 50 hours. They hope this breakthrough could address donor organ shortages for life-saving transplants…

Scientists at New York University temporarily attached a pig's kidney to a human body and watched it begin to work, a small step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for life-saving transplants. Pigs have been the most…

Surgeons in New York have successfully attached a kidney grown in a genetically altered pig to a human patient and found that the organ worked normally, a scientific breakthrough that one day may yield a vast new supply of organs for…

NEW YORK: For the first time, a pig kidney has been transplanted into a human without triggering immediate rejection by the recipient's immune system, a potentially major advance that could eventually help alleviate a dire shortage of human…

Surgeons are using the sort of ‘intelligent’ cameras found in self-driving cars to operate on spines – allowing them to work from intricate live 3D images of their patients’ anatomy.In the past, they could see only the surface of the spine…