Nadia Kounang

1 week ago | cnn.com | Nadia Kounang

Ad Feedback Video Ad Feedback He’s one of the 100 or so people in the world to have ever had a hand transplant For the first time in over 17 years, Luka Krizanac was able to feel cold water and have sensation in his hands. Last fall, surgical teams at the University of Pennsylvania performed a double hand transplant on the 29-year-old.

4 weeks ago | cnn.com | Meg Tirrell |Nadia Kounang

Ad Feedback Video Ad Feedback 'We agree to disagree': Pfizer CEO on working with HHS despite vaccine views Pfizer CEO Dr. Albert Bourla speaks to CNN's Meg Tirrell about pushing past vaccine skepticism to work with the Trump administration, concerns about proposed budget cuts to the National Institutes of Health, and breakthroughs in cancer research.

1 month ago | cnnbrasil.com.br | Jen Christensen |Amanda Sealy |Nadia Kounang

Houve mais de 48.000 transplantes de órgãos nos Estados Unidos no ano passado. Hoje são procedimentos comuns, mas a prática era considerada experimental há apenas meio século. Até poucos anos atrás, os transplantes quase sempre envolviam órgãos humanos. Agora, experimentos iniciais em xenotransplante — transplante de órgãos de animais em humanos — estão criando possíveis caminhos para salvar vidas. Leia mais Os animais são a resposta?

1 month ago | cnn.com | Jen Christensen |Amanda Sealy |Nadia Kounang

See all topics Email Link Copied! EDITOR’S NOTE:  Watch “Dr. Sanjay Gupta Reports: Animal Pharm” on Sunday, May 18, at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CNN. There were more than 48,000 organ transplants in the United States last year. They’re commonplace now, but the practice was considered experimental only a half-century ago. Until just the past few years, transplants almost always involved human organs.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Jen Christensen |Amanda Sealy |Nadia Kounang

EDITOR’S NOTE:  Watch “Dr. Sanjay Gupta Reports: Animal Pharm” on Sunday, May 18, at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CNN. There were more than 48,000 organ transplants in the United States last year. They’re commonplace now, but the practice was considered experimental only a half-century ago. Until just the past few years, transplants almost always involved human organs. Now, early experiments in xenotransplantation — transplanting animal organs into humans — are creating potential pathways to save lives.