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4-year-old who received new heart after waiting 1,025 days goes home from hospital
KABC 7 Los Angeles· 11 hours agoThe staff at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston lined the halls on April 18 to give 4-year-old...
Indian woman with rare disease treated by Shanghai doctors
China Daily· 10 hours agoRenij Hospital and obtained medical treatment there after doctors identified her rare disease recovered and was discharged in mid-April ...
A ‘transformational’ way to treat drug addiction gains momentum at Mass. hospitals - The Boston...
The Boston Globe· 17 hours agoHospitals employ specialists who treat all sorts of ailments, from heart disease to pneumonia, but...
King Charles cancer diagnosis: The history of illnesses in the Royal Family
The Independent via Yahoo News· 16 hours agoPhilip The Queen’s beloved husband died at the age of 99 in April 2021, his cause of death was...
New Jersey woman gets first-ever pig kidney transplant with mechanical heart pump
UPI· 3 days agoNew Jersey native Lisa Pisano has gotten a new lease on life, thanks to a combined transplant of a...
Diabetes drug shows promise for the treatment of acute heart failure
Medical Xpress· 1 day agoThe drug, dapagliflozin, was initially approved for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, but it since has been shown to reduce the risk of hospitalization for heart failure and ...
Second Patient Receives Gene-Edited Pig Kidney Transplant in Breakthrough Surgery
Smithsonian Magazine· 14 hours agoLisa Pisano, a 54-year-old woman from New Jersey, has become the second living person to receive a transplant of a gene-edited pig kidney. Doctors also implanted a mechanical heart& ...
Surgeons perform first combined heart pump and pig kidney transplant
CNN.com· 1 day agoThe first transplant surgery to combine a mechanical heart pump as well as a gene-edited pig kidney...
Woman Becomes First Person to Receive Both Pig Kidney Transplant and Heart Pump
Scientific American· 2 days agoPeople with heart failure may be eligible to receive a heart transplant; people with kidney failure...
Her lifelong goal of becoming a doctor changed after a trip to Peru
San Francisco Chronicle· 13 hours agoLife changed for María Patrizia Santos during a visit to Peru in 2017. It was not from a mystical...