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A Third Person Has Received a Transplant of a Genetically Engineered Pig Kidney
54 years, 11 months ago

A Third Person Has Received a Transplant of a Genetically Engineered Pig Kidney

Wired  

An Alabama woman has become the third person to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically engineered pig, her doctors announced Tuesday. In March, 62-year-old Richard Slayman made history when he received a kidney from a genetically engineered pig at Massachusetts General Hospital. In the second attempt, this April, 54-year-old Lisa Pisano received both a kidney and thymus gland from …

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A transplanted pig kidney offers a grandmother hope for life without dialysis
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6 days, 19 hours ago

A transplanted pig kidney offers a grandmother hope for life without dialysis

NPR  

A transplanted pig kidney offers a grandmother hope for life without dialysis toggle caption Joe Carrotta for NYU Langone Health NEW YORK – Towana Looney can hardly contain her anticipation as she waits to get wheeled to an operating room at the NYU Langone Health hospital in New York City for an historic procedure. "It's going to change my life," …

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Bleeding and in pain, a woman endures a harrowing wait for miscarriage care due to Georgia’s restrictive abortion law
1 month, 1 week ago

Bleeding and in pain, a woman endures a harrowing wait for miscarriage care due to Georgia’s restrictive abortion law

CNN  

CNN — In early October, Avery Davis Bell learned that she was about to lose the baby she and her husband very much wanted. Doctors told Bell she’d have to wait, unless her condition grew worse: Georgia makes people wait 24 hours before they can have an abortion except in medical emergencies. Georgia law criminalizes abortions past six weeks except …

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How California teen Chloe Cole emerged as a leader of the ‘detransition’ movement — and a right-wing icon
4 months, 4 weeks ago

How California teen Chloe Cole emerged as a leader of the ‘detransition’ movement — and a right-wing icon

LA Times  

Wearing pigtails, a pleated skirt and a furry heart-shaped purse, Chloe Cole bounced up the steps of the California Capitol this spring, leaned into a microphone and insisted that transgender children don’t exist. Half of states now prohibit gender-affirming care for those under 18, including Wyoming, where Republicans christened their ban passed in April as “Chloe’s law.” Major medical organizations …

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Bindi Irwin says her doctors initially dismissed her symptoms of endometriosis before diagnosis
1 year, 4 months ago

Bindi Irwin says her doctors initially dismissed her symptoms of endometriosis before diagnosis

The Independent  

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Maria Menounos says her tumour ‘doubled in size’ after doctors overlooked first symptoms of cancer
1 year, 5 months ago

Maria Menounos says her tumour ‘doubled in size’ after doctors overlooked first symptoms of cancer

The Independent  

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A lightning strike fried her nerves and melted her skin – the damage will last years
1 year, 6 months ago

A lightning strike fried her nerves and melted her skin – the damage will last years

The Independent  

She wakes up, like most mornings, in pain. “I’ve talked more than 20 people out of suicide,” says Steve Mashburn, 78, who runs an international support group for lightning survivors. “Whatever I’m experiencing that day, however much pain I’m in, I try to hold on to the fact that I’m the lucky one,” she says. open image in gallery A …

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Because of Florida abortion laws, she carried her baby to term knowing he would die
1 year, 7 months ago

Because of Florida abortion laws, she carried her baby to term knowing he would die

CNN  

CNN — A Florida woman, unable to get an abortion in her state, carried to term a baby who had no kidneys. Dorbert says the doctor told her that in all the cases he’d seen, “that was always the outcome – someone’s baby went stillborn – and the ones that did deliver, the babies pass shortly after birth.” But the …

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My Religious Zealot Sister Keeps Trying to Involve Me in Her Schemes
1 year, 10 months ago

My Religious Zealot Sister Keeps Trying to Involve Me in Her Schemes

Slate  

Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. I don’t think parents of young children are automatically entitled to childcare from family members, but of course you expected that your parents would at least want to visit. Slate Plus Members Get More Advice From Nicole Each Week From this week’s letter, My Dying Dad’s Final Request Is Just Too Much …

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Teddi Mellencamp shares photo of white back spots her doctors think could be melanoma in skin cancer update
1 year, 11 months ago

Teddi Mellencamp shares photo of white back spots her doctors think could be melanoma in skin cancer update

The Independent  

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Queen is advised by doctors to continue to rest for at least TWO WEEKS
3 years, 1 month ago

Queen is advised by doctors to continue to rest for at least TWO WEEKS

Daily Mail  

The Queen has been ordered by doctors to cancel all public engagements and rest for at least another two weeks. In a statement, Buckingham Palace said Her Majesty could still undertake some light duties including virtual audiences Since last appearing in public nearly two weeks ago, the Queen has only carried out virtual engagements, with the latest coming yesterday when …

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Telehealth leapt forward with COVID-19. Who was left behind?
3 years, 4 months ago

Telehealth leapt forward with COVID-19. Who was left behind?

LA Times  

Johnnett Kent, who was diagnosed with lung cancer early in the COVID-19 pandemic, has been able to connect with her doctors by phone from her home in Burbank. The pandemic “has absolutely changed people’s view of what is possible,” said Center for Care Innovations President Sofi Bergkvist, whose organization launched a program to help “safety net” health providers improve virtual …

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