WEDNESDAY, March 27, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The odds in the United States that a well-functioning donor heart will go to a Black man are lower than for white transplant candidates of either gender, new research shows. The news is troubling, since “Black patients have a two to three timesContinue Reading
THURSDAY, March 21, 2024 (HealthDay news) — For the first time ever, doctors have transplanted a genetically edited pig kidney into a human suffering from advanced kidney failure. Such pig kidneys, altered to lower the risk of rejection and disease, have been successfully placed into monkeys and brain-dead human donorContinue Reading
FRIDAY, March 15, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Millions of Americans whose livers develop scar tissue due to a common disease now have the first approved drug, Rezdiffra, to treat the condition, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday. The condition is called non-cirrhotic non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). NASH with liverContinue Reading
THURSDAY, March 14, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Researchers hope findings from a new study of liver transplant patients will lead to improved interventions for those from racial and ethnic minority groups. The study — led by researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas — found the risk of dyingContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, March 13, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Weight-loss surgery may help patients struggling with obesity and kidney failure become eligible for a lifesaving transplant, researchers report. Obesity is a key reason why some kidney patients are turned down for a transplant. But weight-loss surgery “not only helps in reducing theContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Feb. 1, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A new study of aging U.S. veterans finds that one in every 10 who have been diagnosed with dementia might actually have brain impairments caused by liver cirrhosis. It’s a condition called hepatic encephalopathy, and it’s often treatable, explained a team led byContinue Reading
MONDAY, Jan 29, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Fatty liver disease can cause liver damage and can be one health effect of long-term heavy drinking. Now, research shows that the illness can prove even more deadly for women who drink than for men. Also called steatotic liver disease, the condition involvesContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Dec. 1, 2023 (HealthDay News) — A technique doctors use to preserve donated organs is actually doing no good, and might even be harming the organs, a new study reports. Physicians routinely dose deceased organ donors with thyroid hormones, in a bid to preserve heart function and keep theContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 15, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Retatrutide, an experimental weight-loss drug that could compete against blockbusters Wegovy and Zepbound, may work wonders for obese folks with liver disease, new research shows. A wider study, published in June, found that retatrutide helped obese people lose about a quarter of theirContinue Reading
KEY TAKEAWAYS: An Arkansas man has received the world’s first whole-eye transplant, along with a partial face transplant The man suffered horrific injuries in 2021 when his face touched a live wire His surgery took 21 hours and a medical team of more than 140 surgeons, nurses and other healthContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 8, 2023 (HealthDay News) — “Davey” Bauer hovered on the precipice of death, his lungs damaged by vaping and congested by antibiotic-resistant pneumonia. Doctors saved his life with a jury-rigged artificial lung, a prompt double-lung transplant… and a set of DD breast implants. Doctors at Northwestern Medicine craftedContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 1, 2023 (HealthDay News) – The second person to ever receive a transplanted pig heart has died. Lawrence Faucette, 58, got the transplant just six weeks earlier at the University of Maryland Medical Center in an experimental procedure. Unfortunately, the heart had been showing signs of rejection inContinue Reading
MONDAY, Oct. 16, 2023 (HealthDay News) — A liver transplant can give people a new lease on life, but at the cost of lifelong immune-suppressing medication and its risks. Now an innovative approach to reduce, or possibly eliminate, certain patients’ reliance on those drugs is showing early promise. The tacticContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Oct. 13, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Two years after a gene-edited pig kidney was transplanted into a monkey, researchers report the monkey is still alive. “We’re the only group in the field to comprehensively address safety and efficacy of our donor organ with these edits,” said study co-author Dr.Continue Reading