THURSDAY, July 24, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Heavy-drinking Americans are more than twice as likely to develop alcohol-related liver disease compared to two decades ago, even though folks generally imbibe the same amount as before, a new study says. This is likely because heavy alcohol use has increased among groupsContinue Reading
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TUESDAY, July 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Minnesota native Mark Welter needed a kidney transplant, but wasn’t happy that he’d be on immune-suppressing drugs for the rest of his life. The drugs are critical to keep a patient’s body from rejecting a donated organ, but they come with many downsides:Continue Reading
FRIDAY, June 13, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Alcohol-related liver disease deaths are increasing — and they’re rising faster in some groups, including women, young adults and Indigenous people, new research shows. Between 2018 and 2022, deaths from alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD) rose nearly 9% a year, compared to 3.5% annuallyContinue Reading
FRIDAY, June 6, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A repurposed diabetes drug can be an effective tool against fatty liver disease, a new clinical trial has found. Dapagliflozin helped people reduce fat levels in their liver and avoid liver scarring that comes with the condition, which doctors call metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis,Continue Reading
WEDNESDAY, June 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Folks who might need a kidney transplant in the future shouldn’t rush to get one, a new study says. Patients gain no benefit from getting a donated kidney before their own kidneys deteriorate to the point that they require dialysis, researchers reported recentlyContinue Reading
THURSDAY, May 22, 2025 (HealthDay News) — More donor hearts could become available for transplant, thanks to a new discovery that could protect them from damage during transport. Researchers have identified a biological process that contributes to donor heart injury during cold storage, according to a report published May 19Continue Reading
WEDNESDAY, May 21, 2025 (HealthDay News) — New guidelines for allocating donated lungs are saving more lives, a new study says. By prioritizing medical urgency, the guidelines caused a dramatic decline in the number of people who die waiting for a lung transplant, researchers reported Sunday at the American ThoracicContinue Reading
MONDAY, May 19, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Doctors in Southern California have performed the first human bladder transplant, offering new hope to people with serious bladder problems. The surgery was done earlier this month by two doctors from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the University of SouthernContinue Reading
MONDAY, May 12, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The timing of Cornelia Tischmacher’s pneumonia couldn’t have been worse — eight months after the Berlin mom gave birth to twins. But the pneumonia just wouldn’t go away, so Tischmacher went to a doctor in January 2018. Tests revealed that the then-40-year-old hadContinue Reading
FRIDAY, April 25, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Doctors can accurately predict a person’s risk of fatty liver disease as early as 16 years before symptoms develop, a new study says. A blood test looking for five specific proteins can predict metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), more commonly known asContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, April 16, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A new clinical trial will soon test if a pig liver can help people whose own livers have suddenly stopped working. The hope? That animal organs can temporarily filter a patient’s blood, giving their own liver time to rest and possibly recover. TheContinue Reading
TUESDAY, April 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Doctors have removed a genetically modified pig’s kidney from an Alabama woman after her body rejected the organ, NYU Langone Health reported. Towana Looney, 53, had the transplanted organ for 130 days — the longest anyone has ever tolerated an organ from aContinue Reading
FRIDAY, March 28, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A Michigan resident has died after receiving an organ transplant infected with rabies, state health officials said Wednesday. The patient got the transplant at an Ohio hospital in December and passed away the following month. The exact type of organ and the patient’sContinue Reading