NEW YORK (AP) — Doctors in Boston have transplanted a pig kidney into a 62-year-old patient, the latest experiment in the quest to use animal organs in humans. Massachusetts General Hospital said Thursday that it’s the first time a genetically modified pig kidney has been transplanted into a living person. Previously, pig kidneys have been … Read more
Slayman received his first kidney transplant in 2018 from a human donor. The donor kidney initially functioned well, but Slayman started to go into kidney failure after years of living with diabetes. Diabetes is the leading cause of kidney disease, which can eventually result in kidney failure. He had no choice but to go on … Read more
A nurse at an Oregon hospital allegedly replaced pain medication with non-sterile tap water, introducing bacteria that led to a patient’s death, a lawsuit filed this week alleges. Horace Wilson was admitted to Asante Rogue Regional Medical Centre in Medford with a lacerated spleen and broken ribs sustained when he fell from a ladder in … Read more
When Jane McFadden began taking Vyvanse, the “music” in her head stopped for the first time in her life. “Before I started taking medication, I felt like I was constantly overwhelmed, in constant anxiety and felt like I had all of these music tracks going on in my head all the time,” the Sunshine Coast … Read more
The British composer and sound designer Sarah Angliss received her inspiration for this new opera from a visit to the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons where she saw the huge skeleton of the man known as The Irish Giant. The museum started as a private collection of the esteemed anatomist and surgeon … Read more
A UK boy died after his head became lodged in a new bed on the first night he slept in it, an inquest has heard. Four-year-old Ethan Wade was discovered unresponsive in his new medical bed when his father went to wake him on the morning of July 1, 2021. Ethan had been diagnosed with … Read more
There is still much researchers don’t know about popular weight loss medications — and those lack of studies could have consequences for eating disorders, according to experts. The medication semaglutide, sold under brand names such as Ozempic and Wegovy, is a kind of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist or GLP-1 agonist. While originally prescribed for diabetes, … Read more
A UK mum says she was able to detect her three-month-old son’s rare cancer using the flash on her phone camera. Sarah Hedges, 40, from Gillingham in Kent, was cooking dinner in November 2022 when she looked across at her son Thomas and noticed a “white glow” in his eye. She said it was reflecting … Read more
Victoria Hill never quite understood how she could be so different from her father — in looks and in temperament. The 39-year-old licensed clinical social worker from the US state of Connecticut used to joke that perhaps she was the mailman’s child. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Victoria Hill took a DNA test. The results were … Read more
An effective chronic migraine and headache medication is facing a shortage in Australia, just months after it was listed under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS). AJOVY — a prescription medication used for the treatment of migraines, has been available in Australia since September 2019. Since then, it has said to have dramatically helped about 400,000 … Read more
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