From BBC Learning English, this is Learning English from the News, our podcast about the news headlines.
In this programme, a man lived with a pig's kidney for a record of 271 days.
Hello, I'm Becca.
And I'm Phil.
In this programme, we'll look at one big news story and the vocabulary in the headlines
that will help you understand it.
You can find all the vocabulary and headlines from this episode
as well as a worksheet on our website, bbclearningenglish.com.
So, let's hear more about this story.
Tim Andrews from New Hampshire in the United States
was aged 66 when he found out that he'd developed kidney disease linked to type 2 diabetes.
At that time, he was at the end stage of the disease, meaning that he was in the final, most severe phase.
Not much can be done at this stage and many people in this situation are waiting for a replacement human kidney.
There is a shortage of human donor kidneys.
Andrews received a pig kidney and it worked inside him for 271 days, the longest on record, US doctors say.
However...
The pig organ eventually failed and was removed so Andrews needed some dialysis,
a medical treatment where a machine functions like a kidney.
He then received a human kidney transplant 82 days later.
Let's have our first headline.