“This was a breakthrough surgery and brings us one step closer to solving the organ shortage crisis. There are not enough donor human hearts available to meet the long list of potential recipients,” said Bartley P. Griffith, MD, who transplanted the pig heart into patient David Bennett.

Researchers say a London man appears to be free of the HIV virus after a stem cell transplant. It's the second such success since 'Berlin patient' Timothy Ray Brow. The London patient has not been identified. He was diagnosed with HIV in 2003. He developed cancer and agreed to a stem cell transplant...

A young dad told how his life was saved when he received a donor's heart - which doctors kept beating by keeping the organ in a BOX. Lee Hall, 26, was diagnosed with heart failure aged 14 and had a mechanical pump fitted five years ago to keep the blood flowing around his body. But when the pump cab...

How do you make a working human heart? Scientists can turn stem cells into beating heart cells, but getting them to organize into a 3D heart requires a scaffold. At the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Harald Ott and his team are reusing the scaffold that nature provides. They're stripping...

Dr Bob Wallace, Medical Director of the "Love the Golden Rule Clinic" in St Petersburg, Florida shares an intimate and very emotional story from his days as an Intern when he helped save the live of a prominent young man who had been shot in the heart in August, 1982. As we celebrate Hepatitis World...

Regenerative medicine may sound like science fiction, but it is based on a simple premise. Dr. Atala lists the types of tissues that they plan to bio-print at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine.

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A woman in Sweden has achieved a medical first after giving birth to a health baby boy following a womb transplant. The 36-year-old mother received a uterus from a close family friend last year. Her baby boy was born prematurely by cesarean section but is healthy and mother and child are now at hom...

CBS News clip showing how medicine is moving towards growing new parts from your own cells. Although research is still in the experimental stage, there are very positive signs that the procedure may soon become a reality.

Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley, along with the Speaker of the House of Delegates and President of the State Senate, sign HB 438 (Civil Marriage Protection Act) on March 1, 2012, making it law. Same-sex couples will be able to get married in 2013.