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# Medical first

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2022

US surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient

The surgery last Friday took seven hours at the Baltimore hospital.

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Jan 10th 2022, 10:47 PM

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Swedish women in world's first mother-to-daughter uterus transplants

Uterine transplants are a relatively novel medical procedure, with the first successful one conducted in Turkey in 2011.

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Sep 18th 2012, 2:09 PM