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Vasectomy: Procedure, risks and reversal
Half a million men in the United States undergo a vasectomy every year. But how does this procedure work?
Weight-Loss Supplement Linked to Liver Failure Case
A healthy 35-year-old woman who took a weight-loss supplement developed liver failure, and needed a liver transplant, according to a new report of her case.
'Poop Pills' Work Just As Well As Traditional Fecal Transplants
"Poop transplants" given as a pill may work just as well as those delivered via colonoscopy, and the pill form may be a more pleasant treatment method for patients, a new study from Canada finds.
Scientists revived the cells of pigs an hour after death, a potential organ transplant breakthrough
Scientists revitalized cells in the bodies of dead pigs.
2 pig hearts were successfully transplanted into brain-dead human patients
Surgeons successfully transplanted pig hearts into brain-dead patients, advancing toward the next stage of FDA trials.
3 kids receive kidney transplants without need for immune-suppressing drugs
Three children with a rare genetic disease received kidney transplants without the need for any immune-suppressing drugs.
1st-of-its-kind heart transplant in infant could prevent organ rejection
The novel procedure involves transplanting a heart along with thymus tissue from the same donor.
Man who received 1st pig heart transplant has died
The exact cause of the man's death is still unclear.
