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Read full article →For the first time, genetically modified pig kidneys keep two kidney failure patients alive long enough to get human kidneys.
Read full article →Democrats and reproductive rights groups are zeroing in on Sen. Susan Collins’s (R-Maine) vote to confirm Justice Brett Kavanaugh as a pillar of their campaign to oust her, arguing she paved the way for the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn…
Read full article →The American Diabetes Association “continues to move from crisis to crisis to crisis,” says one of five members ejected from June conference.
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- "She was cussing us up one side and down the other." -- Nick Wright, DO, of Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine in Roanoke, recounting a patient who became surprisingly combative during CPR compressions. "It's time all...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Inhaled microplastics were frequently found lodged in people's lungs, especially people with lung malignancy, researchers found. In a prospective observational study of 100 people undergoing diagnostic bronchoscopy, those with...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- More than 6 years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, its effects have continued. In March 2024, roughly 17 million adults (7% of all U.S. adults) reported currently having symptoms consistent with long COVID, a chronic condition...
Read full article →The Trump administration is set to face another key test on abortion, with two months to go until the midterm elections. A three-judge panel on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans is poised to hear oral…
Read full article →We asked readers to share stories about a moment of kindness involving a stranger. Here are some of their heartwarming anecdotes.
Read full article →The Trump administration announced it will be ending $45 million in support for Namibia’s HIV response program following two decades of annual payments. The U.S. will provide its final $45 million payment in the 2027 fiscal year as “this support…
Read full article →NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Allison Aubrey, health and science correspondent for NPR and the author of Your Turn: How to Create a Midlife You Love . You can share your story of midlife reinvention.
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of Texas Tech Health El Paso, look at the top…
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