Contraception and castration linked to longer lifespan
Blocking reproduction increases lifespan in both males and females of many different species, a new international University of Otago—Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka-led study has found.
Dec 10, 2025
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Surgical Procedures, Operative: News and Research on Urogenital Surgical Procedures
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Data-driven surgical supply lists can reduce hospital costs and waste
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, in collaboration with Data Science Alliance, a nonprofit promoting the importance of a responsible science environment, led a study showing that hospitals ...
Nov 26, 2025
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Study finds outpatient dialysis program cuts emergency hospital visits in Texas
The cost of emergency dialysis is estimated to be eight times that of in-center dialysis. A new study reveals that a transitional dialysis program piloted in Travis County (Austin, Texas) resulted in a significant decrease ...
Nov 8, 2025
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More women sought permanent contraception after Supreme Court Dobbs decision
In June 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization ended the federal constitutional right to abortion and returned authority to individual states to regulate abortion. A new study ...
Nov 6, 2025
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Donor kidneys perform better after machine perfusion, 10-year follow-up finds
A long-term follow-up study from a consortium of six European countries, coordinated by the department of Surgery of the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) shows that, even 10 years after transplantation, deceased-donor ...
Nov 5, 2025
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Male circumcision is made easier by a clever South African invention. We trained health care workers to use it
Voluntary medical male circumcision is one of the most important ways to reduce new HIV infections. The foreskin contains receptors that the HIV virus can attach to, and removing it reduces HIV transmission from women to ...
Oct 7, 2025
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Detecting Alport syndrome through universal age-3 urine screening
The most common first diagnosis of Alport syndrome in Japan is during the universal age-3 urine screening. In 60% of these children, the disease had already progressed far enough to qualify for treatment. Therefore, universal ...
Oct 7, 2025
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Enzyme technology clears first human test toward universal donor organs for transplantation
The first successful human transplant of a kidney converted from blood type A to universal type O used special enzymes developed at the University of British Columbia to help prevent a mismatch and rejection of the organ.
Oct 3, 2025
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Radiation therapy after surgery safely reduces pelvic relapse risk from locally advanced, muscle-invasive bladder cancer
Radiation therapy could be an underused tool to reduce pelvic relapse risk for patients with locally advanced, muscle-invasive bladder cancer, according to results of a new Phase III randomized trial.
Sep 29, 2025
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Kidney transplant rejection associated with changes in lymphatic vessels, new research shows
Scientists have uncovered how lymphatic vessels—the kidney's "plumbing system"—undergo dramatic changes during chronic transplant rejection, becoming structurally disorganized and spreading to unusual parts of the kidney.
Sep 16, 2025
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