Category: Health

A 54-year-old New Jersey woman who was the second person to receive a kidney transplanted from a genetically modified pig, and who lived with the organ for 47 days, died on Sunday, surgeons at NYU Langone Health announced on Tuesday. The patient, Lisa Pisano, was critically ill, suffering from both kidney failure and heart failure. […]

The flight to Cleveland was quick. Her father picked her up at the airport and drove directly to the Cleveland Clinic Children’s hospital. Her regular doctor, Ellen Rome, the head of the Center for Adolescent Medicine there, wasn’t in the office that holiday week but arranged for the young woman to see a pediatric gastroenterologist. […]

People who have benefited from mental health therapy often praise its upsides, which can include developing better coping skills, stronger relationships and a calmer mind. But what happens when a therapist just isn’t helping, or is actually causing harm? A psychologist may send up red flags for a client by yawning during sessions, running late […]

Climate change and contaminated water have combined to create an epidemic of kidney disease. Source link

About a month ago, Judith Hansen popped awake in the predawn hours, thinking about her father’s brain. Her father, Morrie Markoff, was an unusual man. At 110, he was thought to be the oldest in the United States. His brain was unusual, too, even after he recovered from a stroke at 99. Although he left […]

It didn’t become part of vaccination programs in Africa until 2024. What if it had come faster? What if the shots had arrived9 years ago? 143,000. That’s how many children’s deaths could have been averted. By Stephanie Nolen Stephanie Nolen interviewed more than 30 scientists, health officials and other key players in the development of […]

V. Craig Jordan, a pharmacologist whose discovery that a failed contraceptive, tamoxifen, could block the growth of breast cancer cells opened up a whole new class of drugs and helped save the lives of millions of women, died on June 9 at his home in Houston. He was 76. Balkees Abderrahman, a researcher who worked […]

Last week, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, chair of the Senate health committee, called on a government watchdog to investigate why insurance companies are still charging women for birth control — a move that thrust access to contraceptives back into the spotlight. In a letter to the Government Accountability Office, the senator noted that insurance […]

The life of a Florida carpenter ant can be brutal. These half-inch ants are territorial and have violent bouts with ants from rival colonies in the Southeast. Combat can leave the ants with leg injuries. But as scientists recently discovered, these ants have evolved an effective wound treatment: amputation. In the journal Current Biology, on […]

Dr. Mildred Thornton Stahlman, a Vanderbilt University pediatrician whose research on fatal lung disease in newborns led to lifesaving treatments and to the creation, in 1961, of one of the first neonatal intensive care units, died on Saturday at her home in Brentwood, Tenn. She was 101. Her death was confirmed by Eva Hill, the […]