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Health workers in Sierra Leone see surge in mpox cases
Sierra Leone is facing an increase in recorded mpox infections, with 177 new cases reported in recent days, a health ministry ...
Experts report urgent need for pediatric heart support devices
At today's Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) in ...
Heart donation after circulatory death technique expands transplant access
Researchers at the Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions of the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation ...
Scientists work toward a vaccine for filoviruses, Ebola's deadly kin
Filoviruses are among the globe's most lethal—indeed, so dangerous they can be handled only in high-security laboratories.
Donor hearts are traveling longer distances with machine perfusion
In places like Australia, where metropolitan areas are separated by an entire continent, donor hearts used to go unused ...
Donor lungs safely preserved up to 20 hours out-of-body prior to transplantation
A study on donor lungs preserved outside the body before transplantation demonstrated that the hypothermic oxygenated machine perfusion (HOPE) technique is a safe and effective lung preservation ...
New Medicare program could dramatically improve affordability for cancer drugs—if patients enroll
Even for patients covered by Medicare, annual out-of-pocket costs for lifesaving cancer treatments taken in pill form have ...
Surge in immune cells may explain duodenal cancer risk in inherited disease
Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) is a hereditary disease which, in addition to carrying a high risk of bowel cancer, also ...
Genetic medicine can leave people with rare mutations behind. But there's new hope
Emily Kramer-Golinkoff can't get enough oxygen with each breath. Advanced cystic fibrosis makes even simple things like ...
Radioiodine therapy found to improve relative survival rates of differentiated thyroid cancer patients
Differentiated thyroid cancer patients who receive radioiodine (RAI) treatment after surgery have increased relative survival ...
Aging reimagined: Study finds immune resilience counters key drivers of disease, mortality
What if, rather than focusing solely on the drivers of disease (pathogenesis), we also explored the factors sustaining our ...
Serotonin system's hidden complexity may reshape understanding of day-to-day decision making
Our lives are filled with binary decisions—choices between one of two alternatives. But what's really happening inside our ...