WEDNESDAY, March 13, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Weight-loss surgery may help patients struggling with obesity and kidney failure become eligible for a lifesaving transplant, researchers report. Obesity is a key reason why some kidney patients are turned down for a transplant. But weight-loss surgery “not only helps in reducing theContinue Reading

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 8, 2023 (HealthDay News) — “Davey” Bauer hovered on the precipice of death, his lungs damaged by vaping and congested by antibiotic-resistant pneumonia. Doctors saved his life with a jury-rigged artificial lung, a prompt double-lung transplant… and a set of DD breast implants. Doctors at Northwestern Medicine craftedContinue Reading