This Kidney Was Frozen for 10 Days. Could Surgeons Transplant It?
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This Kidney Was Frozen for 10 Days. Could Surgeons Transplant It?

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines On the last day of March, surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital began an operation that they hoped might lead to a permanent change in how kidneys are transplanted in people. That morning’s patient was not a person. It was a pig, lying anesthetized…

For Patients Needing Transplants, Hope Arrives on Tiny Hooves
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For Patients Needing Transplants, Hope Arrives on Tiny Hooves

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines More than 100,000 Americans are on waiting lists for donor organs, most needing a kidney. Only 25,000 human donor kidneys become available each year. Twelve Americans on the kidney list die every day on average. Scientists first transplanted genetically engineered pig organs into…

Pope Francis, in Critical Condition, Is ‘Resting’ in Hospital, Vatican Says
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Pope Francis, in Critical Condition, Is ‘Resting’ in Hospital, Vatican Says

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Pope Francis was resting on Monday at the Rome hospital where he has spent the past 10 days with pneumonia, a complex infection and now kidney problems that have all left him in critical condition, the Vatican said. The Vatican said in a…