THURSDAY, Jan. 30, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Weight-loss surgery can protect the liver health of patients with obesity and fatty liver disease, a new study reports. Patients had a 72% lower risk of developing serious complications of liver disease after undergoing weight-loss surgery, researchers reported in Jan. 27 in theContinue Reading
MONDAY, Jan. 27, 2025 (HealthDay News) — An Alabama woman has become the longest-living recipient of a pig organ transplant, passing 60 days with a gene-edited kidney and showing no signs of slowing down. “I’m superwoman,” Towana Looney, 53, told The Associated Press as she marked day 61 on Saturday.Continue Reading
TUESDAY, Dec. 17, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A 53-year-old woman from Alabama has a new lease on life after receiving a gene-edited kidney obtained from a pig, living healthily with the new organ for over a month, her New York City doctors announced Tuesday. Towana Looney’s road to kidney failureContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 11, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Canadian Rowan Ladd scratched her head when doctors said they might bank a blood donation from her at the start of her 2022 liver surgery, but she figured it couldn’t hurt. “You’re told before surgery that the liver is so full of bloodContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Dec. 5, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Fatty liver disease may contribute to fragmented sleep patterns, robbing already sick people of good rest, a new study finds. These folks woke up more often in the night, and then lay awake longer waiting for slumber to reclaim them, researchers found. TheseContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Nov. 26, 2024 (HealthDay News) — People with HIV can now receive a potentially life-saving kidney or liver from a donor who is also infected with the virus, according to new rules announced Tuesday by the Biden administration. According to an announcement from the Department of Health and HumanContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Nov. 22, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A 57-year-old woman with COPD has received the world’s first fully robotic double lung transplant. The breakthrough surgery was performed in October at NYU Langone Health in New York City by Dr. Stephanie Chang. Just a month before, Chang performed a fully roboticContinue Reading
MONDAY, Nov. 18, 2024 (HealthDay News) — AI can help doctors diagnose early cases of fatty liver disease, a new study says. An AI program trained to spot a leading type of the disease, called metabolic-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), unearthed hundreds of undiagnosed cases among the electronic health recordsContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 13, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Obesity, alcohol use and other factors are driving up rates of fatty liver disease among American adults, new research warns. By 2018, federal data showed that 42% of adults had some form of fatty liver disease — higher than prior estimates, according toContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Nov. 1, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Cirrhosis, hepatitis infection and other causes can trigger liver fibrosis — a potentially lethal stiffening of tissue that, once begun, is irreversible. For many patients, a liver transplant is their only hope. However, research at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles may offer patients aContinue Reading