MONDAY, Sept. 25, 2023 (HealthDay News) — A second human patient has received a genetically altered pig heart as he battles the ravages of end-stage heart disease. The 58-year-old man, Lawrence Faucette, received the pig organ at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. The medical team was theContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Sept. 19, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Advisors to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will weigh the possibilities and parameters of experiments with artificial wombs for premature human babies. Scientists have already had some success with the concept in animals. During a two-day meeting that ends Wednesday, the PediatricContinue Reading
MONDAY, Sept. 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Whole-body MRI scans are the latest health fad to be promoted by celebrities, with Kim Kardashian taking to Instagram last month to tout the practice. But doctors are warning that such whole-body scans, while tempting, are pricey and not all that accurate. InContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Sept. 12, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Many Americans are behind on recommended colon cancer screenings — and their doctors often fail to remind them, a new study suggests. The study, by the American Cancer Society, focused on a nationwide sample of more 5,000 Americans who were overdue for colonContinue Reading
SUNDAY, Sept. 10, 2023 (HealthDay News) — When someone has surgery, pain may be top of mind. An expert in managing post-op pain offers three tips for keeping it under control, safely. “Pain can inhibit recovery, but good pain control can be an accelerator of a patient’s recovery,” said Dr.Continue Reading
FRIDAY, Sept. 8, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Receiving an organ transplant can be a nerve-wracking, if lifesaving, affair, said Dr. Joaquin Brieva, a kidney transplant recipient. “Within two days of my transplant, my kidney function was back to normal, but then you worry about the possibility of kidney rejection,” saidContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Sept. 7, 2023 (HealthDay News) — For the first time ever, a solid humanized organ has been grown from scratch in an animal — a first step in a process that could potentially solve organ shortages and save countless lives. Chinese researchers grew partially human early-stage kidneys inside embryonicContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Sept. 5, 2023 (HealthDay News) — You might think you know what a normal body temperature is, but there is no such thing. Analyzing the age-old belief that 98.6 Fahrenheit is normal human temperature, scientists at Stanford Medicine found that your temperature is personal. It also depends on age,Continue Reading
TUESDAY, Sept. 5, 2023 (HealthDay News) — It’s important for men to be familiar with the warning signs of prostate cancer and get screened because it’s the second-leading cause of cancer death in men, an expert says. While there will be more than 288,000 diagnoses and nearly 35,000 deaths thisContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Aug. 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) — As it stands, no one blood test or brain scan can definitively diagnose Parkinson’s disease. But researchers report this may soon change if a new blood test continues to show promise. The test measures DNA damage in the mitochondria of cells, which isContinue Reading