. >> when bennett arrived at the university of maryland medical center he was dying and not eligible for a human transplant because of his heart disease. >> his outlook was very, very bad. >> his son said that he freed to the procedure despite a slim chance of success. >> this was his best hope of getting out of the hospital and having somewhat of a normal quality of life. >> i don't want to die. he said if i do maybe you will learn something to help others. >> though it's too soon to know the long term success of the surgery doctors say that it can offer hope to similar patients. >> there are hubs and thousands of people all round the world who are waiting for the organ and unfortunately just like this patient may not qualify for an organ transplant. >> there have been priori tempts to transplant an animal organ into a human including in baby faye in 1954 who lived for three weeks. those have failed because the body rejects the organ quickly. this time the pig that supplied the heart went through gene edits to remove cells thought to be responsible for rejection. >> we are learning

. >> when bennett arrived at the university of maryland medical center, he was dying and ineligible for human transplant because of the severity of his heart disease and medical history. >> my dad's prognosis early on was very bad. >> reporter: his son said bennett agreed to the experimental procedure, despite a slim chance of success. >> this was his best hope of getting out of the hospital, and having a somewhat normal quality of life. >> is that i don't want to die, and he said if i do, maybe you will learn something to help others. >> reporter: though it is too soon to know the long-term success of the surgery, doctors say it can offer hope to similar patients. >> there are hundreds and thousands of people all around the world who are waiting for the organ, and just like this patient they may not qualify for an organ transplant. >> reporter: there were prior attempts to transplant and animal organ into a human, including baby faye in 1984 who lived with a baboon heart for 3 weeks, but they have failed because the body rejects the organ rapidly. this time the pig that supplied the he

the first ever pig to human heart transplant surgeons at the university of maryland medical center in baltimore announcing they placed a heart from a genetically modified pig into a 57-year-old man on friday the patient is said to be doing well. >>> just 25 days until the winter olympics, opening ceremony and team usa has finalized its lineup in one of the most watched sports here's stephanie gosk with that. >> reporter: ladies and gentlemen, your 2022 u.s. olympic figure skating team. >> it's a really cool opportunity to get to show the world, you know, what you love to do. >> reporter: they will jump they will twist. and they will most certainly dazzle. >> when it comes to competition, it is like, hey, just go for it, you know >> reporter: nathan chen took flight to elton john's "rocket man" winning the national championship. recapping a nearly flawless stretch of skating since pyeongchang. on the women's side, 16-year-old alysa liu had to pull out because of a positive covid test, but she was still named part of the olympics team. >> it's seriously a dream come true and i'm so happ

of baltimore is alive tonight. thanks to a pig in a medical verse. 2 surgeons at the university of maryland medical center have transplanted a pig heart into a human being and for the patient. this was his last chance he was too sick to get a human heart. but it may have never arrived anyway. tonight, one man's gamble with a pig that could forever improve the odds for thousands in a world in which demand for seeds supply. i'm bird gulf in berlin. this is the day . ah, he simply didn't want to die. of my dad was upon his death. no one has ever put a card in his best hope of getting out of the hospital and having someone on the line. we've never done this in a human donor. ama was very stable at the the organ looked perfect. he himself said, i want to live in. i don't you learned something at this at game changer. we have given him a better option than what continuing his therapy would have been the whether it's a day week, month year. i don't know also coming up 20 years ago today, the 1st detainees arrived at the u. s. detention center in guantanamo america's war on terror. had begun and guantanamo would quickly become par

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associate vie chair of education in the department of diagnostic radiology at the university of maryland medical center he wants the public to understand and see the difference for themselves. these are ct images of a covid patient who has been vaccinated on the left. and unvaccinated lung damage on right lung this black structure is the e he right lung, the left lung you can see in the vaccinated individual much of the lung is black. that's a good thing. it demonstrates air. >> reporter: it's a much different story in the lung of an unvaccinated person >> you can see the burn of infection is much more pronounced in an unvaccinated individual versus a vaccinated individual >> reporter: the symptoms of a vaccinated person are milder than in an unvaccinated person >> those who are unvaccinated will have full-blown shortness of breath. there is a higher propensity for them to go into the i.c.u. >> reporter: he said he hopes these images will change minds you can see images, you can see clearly the proof in vaccination and how effective the vaccines are. by looking at a chest x-ray, oftentimes that is more

for the first time, doctors at the university of maryland medical center say they've transplanted a hearta genetically edited pig into a living person. doctors say david bennett is doing well several days after surgery. he was dying, desperate, and ineligible for a human transplant. they are closely watching for any signs of rejection. >>> when we come back here tonight, what they call black monday every year in the nfl. the head coaches fired tonight. ? once-weekly ozempic® can help. ♪ oh, oh, oh, ozempic®! ♪ ♪ oh, oh, oh ♪ ozempic® is proven to lower a1c. most people who took ozempic® reached an a1c under 7 and maintained it. and you may lose weight. adults lost on average up to 12 pounds. in adults also with known heart disease, ozempic® lowers the risk of major cardiovascular events such as heart attack, stroke, or death. ozempic® helped me get back in my type 2 diabetes zone. ozempic® isn't for people with type 1 diabetes. don't share needles or pens, or reuse needles. don't take ozempic® if you or your family ever had medullary thyroid cancer, or have multiple endocrine neoplasia sy

doctors at the university of maryland medical center were granted a special dispensation by the us medicalegulator to carry out the procedure and hope the surgery will be a game—changer in solving the organ shortage crisis. tanya dendrinos reports. and a warning: some of these images are graphic. precious cargo being wheeled into the operating theatre but this was no ordinary transplant. this donor heart belongs to a genetically modified pig. it belongs to a genetically modified pig.— belongs to a genetically modified m. . , ., , modified pig. it had previous surue modified pig. it had previous surgery so — modified pig. it had previous surgery so it _ modified pig. it had previous surgery so it took _ modified pig. it had previous surgery so it took a - modified pig. it had previous surgery so it took a while - modified pig. it had previous surgery so it took a while to | surgery so it took a while to prepare the operative site, such that we could remove his heart and replace it with out of the animal's.— heart and replace it with out of the animal's. the recipient is 57-year-old _ of the

the university of maryland medical center says the 57-year-old man is doing well, 3 days after the surgeryas ineligible for a human heart transplant. the pig had been genetically modified to prevent the human body from immediately rejecting the heart. the death toll from sunday's apartment building fire in the bronx was lowered to 17 today, including 8 children. officials in new york said some victims were double-counted after the city's deadliest fire since 1990. investigators blamed a space heater for igniting the flames. many of the victims were west african immigrants, as mayor eric adams noted today. >> this is a global tragedy because the bronx and new york city is representative of the ethnicities and cultures across the globe and so everyone is feeling the pain of what we are experiencing. but i would tell you this, and i say over and over again, we're going to get through this moment. [:20] >> the new york tragedy came less than a we after a house fire in philadelphia killed a dozen people. the man who bought the gun used in the kenosha, wisconsin, killings pleaded no contest to a

joining me now is nbc news correspondent heidi przybyla at the university of maryland laurel medical center hilton, associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the university of virginia. so heidi, what are they doing in maryland right now with just the knowledge for everybody that just because cases are going down in some parts of the country, just because omicron is not as bad for the vaccinated, the sheer number of cases means hospitals will feel the brunt of this once again. >> yeah, katy, the numbers are tracking with what we're seeing in dozens of other states. statewide, 85% of the beds here that are staffed are in use, a combination of more patients, fewer staff, and then there's a third category that hasn't gotten enough attention, katy, those individuals rolling into emergency rooms in order to get their covid tests. in laurel what they did here is three entire floors of this hospital are devoted only to covid in order to alleviate some of the pressure on the nearby main hospitals. number two, they created a drive-through testing site staffed by the nationa

after toiling for nearly nine hours, surgeons at the university of maryland medical center removed thegan and declared that it had. the pigs heart was pumping away, keeping alive a patient for whom all other options had run out. 0n the operating table was 57—year—old dave bennett, pictured here with his son and daughter. when doctors first proposed the pigs heart transplant, he thought they were joking, but four days on, he's said to be doing well and his doctors sound increasingly optimistic. we've never done this in a human. and i like to think that, um, we have given him a better option than what continuing his therapy would have been, but whether it's a day, week, month, year, i don't know. advances in gene editing and cloning techniques have proved a game changer as far as this sort of surgery is concerned, and in a country in which more than 100,000 people are currently waiting for an organ transplant, dave bennett's operation could help change the lives and ease the suffering of so many. pictured here with the man who led the operation, mr bennett is now breathing on his own wit

city of baltimore is alive tonight, thanks to a pig in a medical verse, 2 surgeons at the university of maryland medical center have transplanted a pig heart into a human being and for the patient. this was his last chance. he was too sick to get a human heart, but it may have never arrived anyway. tonight, one man's gamble with a pig that could forever improve the odds for thousands in a world in which demand for seeds supply. i bird gulf in berlin. this is the day ah.