Surgeon's sentence increased for harm during windpipe transplants.

An Italian surgeon, Dr. Paolo Macchiarini, has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in jail by a Swedish appeals court for causing the death of three patients between 2011 and 2014 during experimental stem cell windpipe transplants. The court concluded that there were no emergency situations among two of the three patients who later died, while the procedure on the third could not be justified. Macchiarini denied any criminal wrongdoing. He was fired from Sweden’s Karolinska Institute in March 2016 for breaching medical ethics after being accused of falsifying his resume and misrepresenting his work.