A grandmother on the brink of death received an experimental surgery earlier this month, getting a new heart valve and a ...

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 ...

Babies born with serious heart defects might be given a pig’s heart temporarily while waiting for a human donor heart. A pig’s liver could potentially serve as a bridge for those in need of a ...

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 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.

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 ...