PEMBROKE, Mass. — Two South Shore firefighters who play in an amateur hockey league jumped into action to save the life of another player who suffered a cardiac emergency. Off-duty firefighters ...

HEALTH Massachusetts man, recipient of first successful pig kidney transplant, is discharged from hospital Rick Slayman, 62, had end-stage kidney disease before receiving the life-saving transplant ...

BOSTON - The Massachusetts man who received the first pig kidney transplant in the world has died. Rick Slayman, 62, from Weymouth, received the kidney from Massachusetts General Hospital on March 21.