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A 54-year-old grandmother has successfully received the first-ever combined pig kidney and mechanical heart pump transplant.    Lisa Pisano, a New Jersey native with end-stage kidney disease and heart failure, was not a candidate for heart and kidney transplant due to the shortage of human organ donations and chronic health …

The family of a bride-to-be and a group of passengers have thwarted a kidnapping attempt and killed a bandit in Zamfara State.   It was gathered that the incident unfolded when the family of the bride-to-be and other travellers were ambushed by bandits along the Talata Mafara-Gusau highway.   According …

Doctors have found a defect in the heart of Leon Te Hau – the boom South Sydney youngster who collapsed at training this week. The former Queensland under 18 representative was rushed to hospital on Wednesday after he felt physically ill and fainted during a training session at Souths’ Heffron …

‘This whole project started as an experiment,” says Pawel Sidorski, who swapped his life in the European hotel industry to pursue his vision of sustainable luxury, opening Yurts in Cyprus, near Paphos in west Cyprus, in 2013. “I wanted to pioneer an off-grid lifestyle and create a place for people …

Former FIFA president, Sepp Blatter has opened up on an experience he had after being put in an induced coma following heart surgery that saw him miss the first day of his 2022 fraud trial.      Blatter served as president of football’s global governing body from 1998 to 2015 when he …

A man has been jailed after he admitted to shaking his tiny daughter so hard that she had a heart attack and died. 29-year-old Samuel Warnock admitted the manslaughter of three-month-old Miyah during the 2021 coronavirus lockdown. Court documents say an ambulance was called to their home in Devizes, Wiltshire, …

A baker was found lifeless with her throat slit and her heart missing at her home in Lagos.   The victim, Tina Ileogben, who lived on Olowo Street, in the Alhaja Shifiwa area of Dopemu, Agege, Lagos State, did not report for duty at the bakery where she worked on …

A mother has gone on Facebook to narrate how pregnancy cured her of an enlarged heart.   Sylvia Amaka Ogbaegbe wrote: “Pregnancy CAN cure you of an ailment.   “When I had one of the necessary tests required  to travel, they found out I had an enlarged heart.   “Of …

Four decades after being diagnosed with a serious heart condition and given just six months to live, Bert Janssen has set a Guinness World Record as the longest-surviving transplant patient. “I want to be an example for people,” said the Dutchman, who was 17 when he was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy, …

Vice President Kashim Shettima has praised the emergence of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as President saying it  “is a reward for the purity of his heart.“ Shettima stated this on Friday, March 1 when he hosted a delegation of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC) on a courtesy visit at the …