Surgical teams at NYU Langone Health performed the world's first genetically modified pig kidney transplant into a human body in September and November 2021, and then transplanted two pig hearts in the summer of 2022. These ...
May 21, 2024
0
57
Immunotherapy increases survival rates in kidney cancer, but does not work for everyone. A Leuven research team has developed a new method to predict which patients will benefit from it. The team of Francesca Finotello (Computational ...
May 24, 2024
0
6
A large team of biomedical researchers affiliated with a host of institutions across the U.S., the U.K., Saudi Arabia and France, has learned more about many of the factors involved in xenotransplantation as they conducted ...
Patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), the most common heart rhythm disorder, have a higher than expected risk of developing some forms of dementia, a new study has found.
Jun 5, 2024
0
20
Anorexia nervosa is a severe mental health disorder where people fear weight gain. Those with the disorder have distorted body image and hold rigid beliefs their body is too big. They typically manage this through restricted ...
May 27, 2024
0
11
New findings on long COVID—long-term effects on health experienced by many who have had COVID-19—present a good-news, bad-news situation, according to a study at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and ...
May 30, 2024
0
61
More than 20,000 volunteers have been recruited to a resource aimed at speeding up the development of much-needed dementia drugs. The cohort will enable scientists in universities and industry to involve healthy individuals ...
May 14, 2024
0
24
When a patient is admitted to intensive care due to a disorder of consciousness—such as a coma—establishing their neurological prognosis is a crucial yet challenging task.
May 30, 2024
0
20
A new AI tool to more quickly and accurately classify brain tumors has been developed by researchers at The Australian National University (ANU).
May 17, 2024
0
6
Improving the outcome of patients after a heart attack is one of the major challenges of cardiology. This includes a comprehensive understanding of the pathophysiology and early detection of those patients who have a high ...
May 21, 2024
0
3
