Tag: Richard Herrick

  • Nation & World

    Transplant pioneer dies at 93

    Joseph E. Murray, emeritus professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School, whose many breakthroughs included the first successful kidney transplant, died Nov. 26, after suffering a hemorrhagic stroke at his Wellesley, Mass., home on Thanksgiving. He was 93.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A transplant makes history

    In 1954, Harvard surgeons at the Brigham performed the first successful organ transfer, a kidney exchanged between twins, opening a major medical field, and giving life and hope to thousands of patients.

    7 minutes