Researchers are exploring an innovative approach that brings together 3D printing technology, stem cells, and laboratory-cultivated tissues—a combination that shows promise as a potential game-changer for helping people recover from spinal cord injuries, according to recent research. The technique involves using 3D printing to shape stem cells into specialized scaffolds.Continue Reading
FRIDAY, Nov. 7, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A new screening tool may help doctors and communities better understand why so many Americans struggle to eat a healthy diet, even when they have enough food. Researchers at Tufts University’s Food is Medicine Institute in Boston have created and tested a surveyContinue Reading
The small trial will start with six people and may expand to 50 people if early results are safeContinue Reading
MONDAY, Nov. 3, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A new “smart toilet” device aims to help people track their health by analyzing their bathroom trips. The Dekoda device clamps around the rim of any standard toilet, where it uses advanced sensors to scan a person’s waste, says its manufacturer, Kohler Health.Continue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 29, 2025 (HealthDay News) — President Donald Trump has confirmed that doctors at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center recently performed an MRI scan, his second medical visit of the year. The move seems to be drawing much attention to the 79-year-old president’s health, CNN reported. Speaking toContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Oct. 28, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A 67-year-old New Hampshire man has set a medical milestone after living more than nine months with a gene-edited pig kidney, doctors announced Monday. The experimental transplant, performed by surgeons at Mass General Brigham, lasted 271 days, the longest anyone has survived withContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Oct. 28, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A young boy in New Zealand needed emergency surgery and lost part of his bowel after swallowing more than 80 small, high-powered magnets, according to a new case report published in the New Zealand Medical Journal. Doctors said the boy swallowed between 80Continue Reading
FRIDAY, Oct. 24, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Artificial intelligence (AI) might be able to help doctors make glaucoma screening widely available, a new study says. A trained AI program correctly identified patients with glaucoma 88% to 90% of the time, compared with 79% to 81% for human graders, researchers reportedContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Oct. 24, 2025 (HealthDay News) — An advanced form of LASIK eye surgery that uses a virtual 3D model of a person’s eye appears to offer patients better vision, a new study says. About 98% of eyes treated with the “wavelight plus” form of LASIK gained improved vision, comparedContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Oct. 23, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Imagine popping by your eye doctor’s office for a quick cataract surgery. That appears to be the future for this vision-enhancing procedure, researchers reported Saturday at the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s annual meeting in Orlando, Florida. Hundreds of patients successfully received cataract surgeryContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Oct. 21, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Scientists have restored partial vision to people with a common form of blindness using a prosthetic retinal implant, a first that could one day improve life for more than a million Americans with severe vision loss. The new technology — developed by Califonia-basedContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Oct. 14, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Most kids go without clear liquids at least three times longer than guidelines recommend prior to surgery, a new study says. About 4 out of 5 children and infants (79%) are on liquid fasts far longer than necessary, risking dehydration and anxiety, researchersContinue Reading
The $50 million in grants will examine how genetics and environment interactContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The early warning signs of multiple sclerosis appear to be the same for everyone, regardless of their background. The pain, mood changes, brain decline and neurological problems associated with early MS can appear years before diagnosis, but appear to affect all types ofContinue Reading