Towana Looney knew that the first four people who ever received an organ from a pig died within two months ... even if it was risky. Her doctor in Alabama, Jayme Locke, told her about the ...
Her doctor, Jayme Locke, then an abdominal transplant surgeon at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, had previously led short-term pig kidney transplants in brain-dead recipients and ...
DEAR READERS: Anyone who still consumes bacon, pork or other pig products needs to think twice, especially if they have, and love, a dog or cat -- whose emotional intelligence is equivalent to a ...
There it was — the elusive pig who had become so good at pulling a perfect disappearing act on the men of the village. Lucie watched silently as it stepped out of the woods and into her yard.
DEAR READERS: Anyone who still consumes bacon, pork or other pig products needs to think twice, especially if they have, and love, a dog or cat — whose emotional intelligence is equivalent to a pig’s.
But her doctor predicts that in less than a decade, pig-to-human organ transplants like ... Three weeks out, she is still in good shape. “This kidney is remarkable,” Locke said.