Surgical adhesions—common, sometimes life-threatening complications that arise after open or laparoscopic abdominal ...

New Hampshire native Tim Andrews was quite happy to spend his 67th birthday on Wednesday at Mass General Hospital (MGH). On ...

The device, to be tested in more people, could be used as a temporary measure for those waiting for a donor organ.

A guinea pig cage provides more than comfort for your little pet–it also functions as their entire world. Sometimes called ...

A new study links dietary cholesterol to an increased risk of heart attacks, highlighting the potential health benefits of ...

An Exeter Hospital hand surgeon's work is connecting carpal tunnel syndrome to a rare, life-threatening heart condition— and ...

An Australian man lived for 100 days with an artificial titanium heart while he awaited a donor transplant, the longest ...

DARO, a Lincoln-based company, wants to change how farmers track disease in pigs. The startup has received over $1 million to ...

Pigs have been chosen as an ideal species for xenotransplantation due to their physiological similarities to humans and their ...

Many patients with organ failure, tethered to a dialysis machine four hours every other day, see in these small pigs hope for ...

After years of research into xenotransplantation, the field is at a turning point—yet risks and ethical issues remain ...

Tim Andrews is recovering well after receiving a kidney from a genetically modified pig. Massachusetts General Hospital is ...