Pig Intestinal Tissue Helps Human Injury. By ABC News. April 17, 2001, 9:13 AM. L O S   A N G E L E S, April 17 -- Doctors are getting help from pigs to repair human shoulder injuries.

Tissue from pig intestines is key to a new procedure performed by University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill doctors as an alternative to major surgery of people with fistulas.

Chitterlings and tripas are similar dishes thanks to their shared main ingredient, but they have more than enough differences ...

Anne "Angie" Miller works in her garden in Portage. A pelvic-floor surgery using the lining of a pig's intestine gave her the freedom to enjoy more activities.

Doctors are using this material, made from pigs' intestines, to heal sores and wounds in humans, to repair hernias, and to treat urinary incontinence in women. When moistened, the material, called SIS ...

Would you try coffee flavoured with... pig's intestines? A cup of java by the name of "pig's intestines coffee" might turn the stomachs of most people, but it has recently gone viral on the internet, ...

To test STAR’s performance the researchers recruited surgeons to perform the identical procedure on pig intestines using three other methods: hand-sewn sutures, laparoscopy and the robot ...

Hyperbaric Chambers and Pig Intestines: All the Details of Jay Leno's Treatment for 'Very Severe' Burns "His burns were deeper than I anticipated," says Dr. Peter Grossman, who treated Jay Leno ...

The ability of the fetal pig intestine to absorb large proteins was investigated in utero. Six pregnant sows were anesthetized (Na pentobarbital) at 99-102 d of gestation (term = 115 ± 2 d), and ...

Pig intestine tissue has previously been used in skin grafting and replacing heart valves, but UNC researchers developed a method using X-rays to apply the tissue to a fistula repair.