Disgraced surgeon appeals prison sentence
Transplant surgeon Paolo Macchiarini appeals prison sentence; Is it healthier to eat quickly or slowly?; Transplanting kidneys from pigs into humans.
When former transplant surgeon Paolo Macchiarini first implanted a synthetic trachea into a patient more than a decade ago, it was hailed as a breakthrough. But the person he operated on died, as did subsequent patients. And in 2013, Macchiarini was reported to Sweden’s Karolinska Institute, where he had carried out the operations, for scientific misconduct. Over the years, Health Check has followed the story and in this programme we hear the latest as Macchiarini appeals against a prison sentence in Sweden for gross assault.
Claudia Hammond is joined by Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ health and science correspondent James Gallagher who has been finding out whether eating his meals quickly or slowly is better for his health. And he brings us news from the USA of one of the first functional kidney transplants from a pig into a human.
Presenter: Claudia Hammond
Producer: Dan Welsh
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