Doctors in China say they transplanted a genetically modified pig liver into a 71-year-old man who lived 171 days after the ...

A health insurance dispute is preventing a North Carolina man from getting a cancer drug his doctors say is necessary.

Surgeons in China transplanted part of pig liver into a patient with an incurable cancerous tumor, and it functioned for more ...

In a world-first, Chinese researchers have successfully transplanted a genetically engineered pig liver into a living human, ...

A study shows that genetically engineered pig livers can sustain essential liver functions in humans. A groundbreaking study published in the Journal of Hepatology has documented the first successful ...

A man suffering from liver cancer in China was given the organ from a swine and lived for more than 170 days, including a good five weeks without any complications ...

The patient lived with part of a pig liver for 38 days before surgeons removed it, surviving 171 total days after the ...

The 71-year-old patient, who underwent the surgery in May at the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, ...

CHANDLER, Ariz. — A Chandler family is holding onto hope that their loved one will be able to receive a life-saving liver transplant. "I don't see him dying," his mother, Sarah Goodman, said. "I don't ...

Mayo Clinic surgeons have found that an innovative approach can help patients with obesity get lifesaving care. Obesity can be a barrier to liver transplant. Dr. Julie Heimbach, director of the Mayo ...