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5/13/2024 5:39:57 PM
The first living patient to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant has died two months after the procedure, the US hospital that carried it out said.
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World
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International
11/9/2023 11:21:26 PM
A team of surgeons in New York has performed the world's first transplant of an entire eye in a procedure widely hailed as a medical breakthrough, although it isn't yet known whether the man will ever see through the donated eye.
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Health
9/23/2023 8:32:51 PM
Surgeons have transplanted a pig’s heart into a dying man in a bid to prolong his life – only the second patient to ever undergo such an experimental feat. Two days later, the man was cracking jokes and able to sit in a chair, Maryland doctors said .
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Egypt
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Health
9/17/2023 5:53:21 PM
Egyptian Ambassador to Cote d'Ivoire Wael Badawy delivered medical equipment donated by Egypt to support the establishment of a regional centre for liver surgery and transplantation at Treichville University Hospital in Abidjan.
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Health
9/17/2023 12:02:21 PM
Attempts have failed for decades — the human immune system immediately destroyed foreign animal tissue. What’s new: Trying pigs genetically modified so their organs are more humanlike.
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Health
8/17/2023 1:01:48 PM
Surgeons transplanted a pig’s kidney into a brain-dead man and for over a month it’s worked normally — a critical step toward an operation the New York team hopes to eventually try in living patients.
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Health
7/25/2023 10:29:50 AM
A man dubbed the "Geneva patient" is the latest person with HIV to be declared in long-term remission -- however he did not receive a transplant with a virus-blocking gene mutation like previous cases.
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Health
2/20/2023 6:26:37 PM
A man known as "the Duesseldorf patient" has become the third person declared cured of HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant that also treated his leukaemia, a study said on Monday.
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Egypt
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Health
1/7/2023 12:56:42 PM
A thirty-year-old Egyptian woman who had recently undergone a lung transplant from a living donor – the first operation of its kind in Egypt and the Middle East – at Ain Shams University Hospital has died, the university announced on Friday.
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Health
12/20/2022 3:33:08 PM
On Saturday , after years of preparation, Egyptian doctors performed the first whole lung transplant in Egypt and the first in the Middle East from a living donor at Ain Shams hospital in Cairo, ushering in a new era in the field of organ transplantation.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
12/8/2022 2:51:00 PM
Thousands of Egyptians in need of organ transplants have been met with news that members of parliament’s Health Committee had decided to sign a certificate that enables them to donate their organs after their death.
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Health
11/29/2022 1:42:20 PM
The Egyptian Liver Transplant Society (ELTS) held first congress in Cairo last week under the slogan “Connecting East and West,” showcasing promising breakthroughs, including government efforts to expand the number of organ donors in the country.
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Life & Style
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Health
10/16/2022 12:12:08 PM
Scientists have transplanted human brain cells into the brains of baby rats, where the cells grew and formed connections.
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Life & Style
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Health
10/13/2022 11:18:38 AM
A 13-month old baby girl received the world’s first intestinal transplant, Spanish health authorities have announced.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
10/4/2022 10:57:34 PM
Nasser Institute is being renovated into an integrated medical city with a centre for organ transplants, reports Reem Leila
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Egypt
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Health
10/1/2022 10:59:59 PM
Egypt has more than 37 registered centres for organ transplantation, health ministry spokesman Hossam Abdel-Ghaffar said on Saturday.
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Egypt
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Health
9/27/2022 4:03:08 PM
Egypt has started pre-clinical trials of lung transplantation, Presidential Health Adviser Awad Tag El-Din announced on Monday evening.
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Egypt
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Health
9/26/2022 9:19:58 PM
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi directed the government on Monday to establish the largest organ transplant centre in the Middle East and Africa in Cairo, in cooperation with international companies.
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Health
6/4/2022 1:31:35 PM
A US medical team said they had reconstructed a human ear using the patient's own tissue to create a 3D bioimplant, a pioneering procedure they hope can be used to treat people with a rare birth defect.
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Health
5/8/2022 6:25:39 PM
Researchers trying to learn what killed the first person to receive a pig heart transplant have found the organ harbored an animal virus.
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