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NEW YORK (AP) — An Alabama woman is recovering well after a pig kidney transplant last month that freed her from eight years of dialysis, the latest effort to save human lives with animal organs.

A Gulf Coast veteran is recovering two months after receiving a new kidney. Dino Marzoni spent three years on dialysis and on a transplant list ... The next best option was surgery.