Tag: Pioneering

Terminally ill man from Maryland, 58, is living with a PIG’S HEART – after becoming second patient ever to get pioneering transplant surgery

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A Maryland man with a terminal heart disease has become the second-ever patient to receive a genetically modified pig heart. 

This week, Lawrence Faucette, 58, underwent transplant surgery after being deemed ineligible for a human heart transplant due to peripheral vascular disease, which reduces blood circulation. 

The procedure, known as a xenotransplant, has only been performed once before on an ex-convict who died two months later. Both historic procedures were performed at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC). 

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My tough little cookie needs a NEW miracle: Mother’s fears as five-year-old daughter born with heart outside body faces more pioneering surgery

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The girl who was saved by doctors after she was born with her heart outside her chest is now facing more breakthrough treatment – as her family are preparing for their ‘little miracle’ to go back into hospital.

Vanellope Wilkins was allowed home from hospital for the first time five years ago after the world-first surgery.

She weighed just 3 lb 8oz when she was delivered at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester on November 22 2017, where a 50-strong team was

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Step-by-step, how pioneering medics performed Britain’s first ever womb transplant in painstaking SEVENTEEN-hour op involving two sisters

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Before any major operation key members of the surgical team meet to discuss logistics – but it is rare to find as eminent and wide-ranging a group as the one assembled at Oxford’s Churchill hospital one chilly morning last February.

Not just the health but the happiness of two very special patients was at stake. In a ground-breaking British first, a 40-year-old woman (a mother of two) was about to donate her womb to her younger sister, in the hope

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Jessica Alves says she’d be first in line for trans womb when pioneering op becomes available

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Jessica Alves wants to be ‘first in the queue’ for a pioneering trans womb operation, when science catches up to her dream of becoming a mother.

The trans star, who gave up on getting the operation in 2021 , told MailOnline she was still dreaming of one day having a belly bump.

Prominent experts in the field anticipate the pioneering transplants will be ready for trans women — who were born male — within the next few years.

And Jessica,

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This Pioneering Economist Says Our Obsession With Growth Must End

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Growth is the be-all and end-all of mainstream economic and political thinking. Without a continually rising G.D.P., we’re told, we risk social instability, declining standards of living and pretty much any hope of progress. But what about the counterintuitive possibility that our current pursuit of growth, rabid as it is and causing such great ecological harm, might be incurring more costs than gains? That possibility — that prioritizing growth is ultimately a losing game — is one that the

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Marlin Briscoe, Pioneering Black Quarterback, stirbt im Alter von 76 Jahren

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Marlin Briscoe, ein wegweisender Scrambling-Quarterback, der in den 1960er Jahren Vorurteile gegen schwarze Athleten überwinden musste, die diese Position spielten, und der später mit den Miami Dolphins zwei Super Bowl-Ringe als Wide Receiver gewann, starb am Montag in Norwalk, Kalifornien, außerhalb von Los Engel. Er war 76.

Seine Tochter Angela Marriott sagte, die Todesursache in einem Krankenhaus sei eine Lungenentzündung gewesen. Sie sagte, er habe Kreislaufprobleme in den Beinen gehabt.

Briscoe schrieb 1968 während seines Rookie-Jahres bei den Denver Broncos

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