Surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical Centre (UMMC), United States have performed a second successful transplant of a genetically modified pig heart on a 58-year-old patient, Lawrence Faucette, with end-stage heart disease. Faucette received the pig heart transplant on 20 September. The first historic surgery, performed in January 2022, was conducted on David Bennett by the University of Maryland …

Surgeons at Hadassah Medical Centre, Jerusalem, have reattached a 12-year-old boy’s head to his neck after a serious accident in which he was hit by a car while riding his bicycle. Palestinian from the West Bank, Suleiman Hassan was airlifted to Hadassah Hospital’s trauma unit in Ein Kerem, where it was determined that the ligaments holding the posterior base of …