Due to overwhelming support from over five million members of the powerful national organization, PVSA (Pig Valve Survivors of America) in opposition to the decision by local and state federal grant ...

Pig heart valves used to replace defective aortic valves in human patients failed much earlier and more often than expected, says a report from cardiac surgeons at Washington University School of ...

The recent announcement by the People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) that they had convinced the University of Tennessee (UT) College of Medicine in the Gig City to immediately stop using ...

Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) underwent five hours of surgery at Inova Fairfax Hospital to replace a leaking pig valve installed in his heart 10 years ago and to repair another heart valve. Helms, 80, was ...

An average of 22 people die in America every day while waiting for organ transplants, but a group of researchers from the biotech company eGenesis hope to eventually change that statistic by using ...

Tissue valves such as this Hancock Mitral Valve must be stored in a sealed liquid (formaldehyde) filled container until implantation. Both porcine (pig) and bovine (cow) tissue are used to make ...

Tissue valves such as this must be stored in a sealed liquid (formaldehyde) filled container until implantation. Both porcine (pig) and bovine (cow) tissue are used to make xenograft (transplant from ...

An average of 22 people die in America every day while waiting for organ transplants, but a group of researchers from the biotech company eGenesis hope to eventually change that statistic by using ...