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How Baylor Pulled Off The Uterus-Transplant Birth

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Late last year, a woman gave birth to a baby via a transplanted uterus – the first time that’s ever happened in the U.S. The boy was born at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, and guest host Lauren Silverman talks about how the procedure was pulled off with members of the team who performed it: Dr. Liza Johannesson, an ob-gyn and uterus transplant surgeon at Baylor; and Dr. Giuliano Testa, the leader of the hospital’s uterus transplant clinical trial.