During the nine-hour-long surgery ... of acute liver failure, while awaiting a human organ for a definitive transplant.’ Iván Fernández Vega, Professor of Pathological Anatomy at the ...

Colorectal cancer is the fourth-most-common cancer in the U.S. and the second deadliest. One in 5 patients is diagnosed with ...

"Surgery was really successful," he told a news conference. "The liver from the pig functioned ... Ivan Fernandez Vega, professor of pathological anatomy at the University of Oviedo in Spain ...

Liver disease patients waiting for a transplant have been offered fresh hope. A new mechanism for rapid liver regeneration ...

The surgery also brings new hope for patients with stage 4 colorectal cancer who have seen it spread to their liver. Kelli Podrez was higher on the transplant list but agreed to share the liver ...