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Human Patient Receives Pig Heart In First-Of-Its-Kind Transplant

(CBS) -- In a medical first, doctors transplanted a pig heart into a patient in a last-ditch effort to save his life and a Maryland hospital said Monday that he's doing well three days after the highly experimental surgery.

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