Heart Transplants: A Brief History

Courtesy TIME: Top Science and Health Stories  Mon, 11/16/2009 - 01:35

Twenty-five years after Baby Fae's death following the world's first animal-to-human infant heart transplant, TIME looks back at the history of the procedure


 

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