Chicago shooting leaves 4 dead and 14 wounded, police say
CHICAGO (AP) — The upbeat mood in a busy Chicago neighborhood known for its restaurants and nightlife quickly turned into horror late Wednesday as shots...
Category : Health
RFK Jr. promotes a food company that makes ultraprocessed meals
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday praised a company that makes $7-a-pop meals that are delivered directly to the homes...
Man receives the world’s first eye transplant with a face transplant
NEW YORK (AP) — Surgeons have performed the world’s first transplant of an entire human eye, an extraordinary addition to a face transplant — although...
Maine Family Planning sues Trump administration to restore Medicaid funding
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — An item in Republicans’ sweeping policy and tax bill intended to block Medicaid dollars from flowing to Planned Parenthood, the nation’s...
Surgeons perform first combined pig kidney transplant and heart pump to extend woman’s life
NEW YORK (AP) — Doctors have transplanted a pig kidney into a New Jersey woman who was near death, part of a dramatic pair of...
Pig transplant research yields pork safe for some with red meat allergy caused by lone star tick
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Some people who develop a weird and terrifying allergy to red meat after a bite from a lone star tick can...
A transplanted pig kidney has freed her from eight years of dialysis
NEW YORK (AP) — An Alabama woman is recovering well after a pig kidney transplant last month that freed her from eight years of dialysis,...
Tired of long organ waitlists, these patients are hopeful for a pig organ transplant
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The calls and emails started coming into NYU Langone Health and Massachusetts General Hospital soon after doctors began experimenting with pig...
How a family’s choice to donate a body for pig kidney research could help change transplants
NEW YORK (AP) — Mary Miller-Duffy was dazed and grieving. Her brother suddenly collapsed and days later was brain-dead. Now she faced a tough question:...
Meet some of the pigs raised to grow kidneys and hearts for human transplant research
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Wide-eyed piglets rushing to check out the visitors to their unusual barn just might represent the future of organ transplantation –...