‘There’s got to be a first person somewhere – maybe you’ll learn something from it that will help the next person’ A man who suffered horrific injuries after being electrocuted has become the world’s first ever eye transplant patient. Aaron James was working for a power line company back in June 2021 when he was […]
2 years ago
The procedure is yet to have been done successfully A surgeon based in India is hoping to achieve the world’s first womb transplant on a trans patient who was born male but wants to give birth to her own child. Dr Narendra Kaushik, who is based at the new purpose-built Olmec clinic in New Delhi, […]
4 years ago
This is at least the second such case in the past week A man awaiting a life-saving organ transplant has said he would rather “die free” than get the covid-19 vaccine that is required for the operation to go ahead. Chad Carswell of Burke County, North Carolina is in desperate need of a kidney transplant […]
4 years ago
The transplant was considered the last hope of saving the man’s life A man in the US has become the first person in the world to get a heart transplant from a genetically-modified pig. David Bennett, 57, is safely in recovery from the seven-hour procedure which took place on Friday, with doctors monitoring his condition. […]
4 years ago