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Peter Cade/Getty Images (BOSTON) — A surgical team said Thursday it has conducted the world’s first genetically edited pig kidney transplant into a living human. During a four-hour procedure earlier this month, surgeons at Massachusetts [Read More…]

Thir Sakdi Phu Cxm / EyeEm/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House Committee on Energy and Commerce has launched a bipartisan investigation into the U.S. organ transplant system — the latest scrutiny of the system following [Read More…]

AlexSava/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Life expectancy in the United States increased in 2022 after two years of decline, according to new final federal mortality data. In a report published early Thursday by the Centers [Read More…]

Martin Leigh/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the U.S. welcomes spring, it also means the arrival of allergy season, which affects millions of people. High pollen levels can lead to a variety of symptoms including [Read More…]

Jackyenjoyphotography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Millions of Americans are still experiencing long COVID more than four years since the global COVID-19 outbreak was declared a pandemic. According to the most recent federal Household Pulse Survey, [Read More…]

Morsa Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — COVID-19 vaccines were found to cut the risk of heart failure by up to 55% and blood clots by up to 78% following COVID infection, according to a new [Read More…]

fstop123/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Medication abortion accounted for 63% of all the abortions performed in the U.S. in 2023, according to a new study from the Guttmacher Institute. In the first full calendar year [Read More…]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden signed a sweeping executive order Monday promoting women’s health research as the country continues to celebrate Women’s History Month. The White House described it as the “most [Read More…]

ER Productions Limited/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Cases of MIS-C are still occurring in 2023 and children who are unvaccinated or have waning immunity from previous vaccination are at the highest risk of developing the [Read More…]

Christie Brinkley attends the American Humane Hero Dog Awards at The Breakers on Nov. 10, 2023 in Palm Beach, Florida. (Mireya Acierto/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — Actress and model Christie Brinkley revealed she has been [Read More…]

Courtesy of Jace (NEW YORK) — What began as symptoms of fatigue for one Florida man became a life-changing cancer diagnosis at age 25. Jace, who asked that his last name not be used to [Read More…]

Getty Images – STOCK (SANTA FE, N.M.) — A New Mexico man has died from plague in the state’s first human fatality since 2020, according to health officials. The man lived in Lincoln County — [Read More…]

Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (CHICAGO) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is sending a team to Chicago to help respond to the first measles cases detected in the city since 2019, [Read More…]

Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (CHICAGO) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reportedly sending a team to Chicago to help health officials respond to the first measles cases detected in the [Read More…]

PHOTO: Good Morning America” co-anchor Robin Roberts speaks with actresses Jamie-Lynn Sigler and Christina Applegate. Good Morning America” co-anchor Robin Roberts speaks with actresses Jamie-Lynn Sigler and Christina Applegate. Eric Mccandless/ABC (NEW YORK) — Actresses [Read More…]

SONGPHOL THESAKIT/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Monday marks four years since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. Since the first cases in Wuhan, China, in 2019, there have been millions [Read More…]

Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, speaks with people in Malawi. — Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (NEW YORK) — Each day, almost 800 women around the world die due to [Read More…]

The Good Brigade/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — After two weeks of agonizing limbo for families in the midst of fertility treatment in Alabama, the state legislature on Wednesday night passed the final version of a [Read More…]

Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House subcommittee tasked with investigating the nation’s response to the coronavirus pandemic on Tuesday subpoenaed former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in relation to his administration’s [Read More…]

S. Barros/Long Visual Press/Universal Images Group via Getty Images (New York) — Medical debt across the U.S. is associated with worse physical and mental health, and even premature death. A new study from the American [Read More…]