Compensating Kidney Donors
LA Times: Never in the field of public legislation has so much been lost by so many to one law, as Churchill might’ve put it. The National Organ Transplant Act of 1984 created the framework for the organ transplant system in the United States, and nearly 40 years later, the law is responsible for…#latimes #transplantact #walterreed #seattleite #kidneydonors #rootofproblem
Source: Reuters: Health - August 19, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

ICYM: Beethoven ’s Hair, Inside the Dying Brain, and More ICYM: Beethoven ’s Hair, Inside the Dying Brain, and More
Impact Factor, with Dr F. Perry Wilson, is taking a break this week. But in case you missed them, here are five of the most popular videos in the series from the past year.Medscape
Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines - August 18, 2023 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Internal Medicine Commentary Source Type: news

A New Technique Uses a Patient ’ s Own Stem Cells to Restore Their Vision
One moment during the summer of 2020, Nick Kharufeh was enjoying an Independence Day party with his family in California. The next, he couldn’t see out of his left eye. Kharufeh, now 26, was struck in the face by a malfunctioning firework, causing severe damage to and blindness in his left eye—damage his doctors said they could do little about. “I thought my life was over,” says Kharufeh, who until the accident had been training to become a pilot. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Only a few months later, however, Kharufeh’s mother learned about an experimental trial in Bosto...
Source: TIME: Health - August 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized embargoed study healthscienceclimate Innovation Source Type: news

Can This Common Herb Help Grow Hair? Can This Common Herb Help Grow Hair?
If you ' re looking to grow hair, you might just have a solution in your kitchen cabinet.WebMD Health News
Source: Medscape Dermatology Headlines - August 18, 2023 Category: Dermatology Tags: Dermatology News Source Type: news

The simple exercises you can do to improve eye health, reveals optometrist
People are happy to spend a lot of time and money looking after and maintaining their teeth, skin, hair, and other parts of their face, but many of us underestimate the strain our eyes go through on a daily basis. With the prevalence of technology and reliance on devices with screens, the average…#ronaldbenner #benner #bcomplex #spinach
Source: Reuters: Health - August 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

EXCLUSIVE: Leading womb transplant experts say it's 'medically possible' for transgender women to have natural pregnancies - and they hope to offer procedure to trans couples in years
A uterus transplant, which involves taking the womb from a deceased or living donor and transplanting it into another woman, would pave the way for infertile and eventually trans women to give birth.
Source: the Mail online | Health - August 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

A New Treatment Option for a Form of Sudden Hair Loss
THURSDAY, Aug. 17, 2023 -- A new type of medication, JAK inhibitors, can effectively treat moderate to severe alopecia areata, a hair loss condition that has been historically hard to treat. A study of its effectiveness, by Dr. Brett King and Dr....
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - August 17, 2023 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news

Ten-Year Treasury Yield Hits 15-Year High, Market Wades out of Denial, Sees “Higher-for-Longer,” Tsunami of Issuance, QT
“Higher for longer be damned”: consumers and businesses. The 10-year yield closed at 4.28% today, according to Treasury Department data, the highest since, well, let’s look here, November 14, 2007, so about 15 years ago, having edged past November 2022 and June 2008 by a hair. 2007 is notable in…#treasurydepartment #greatbondbullmarket #treasury #measure #mortgagenewsdaily #treasurydept #treasurydepartments #tga #treasuries #lol
Source: Reuters: Health - August 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Pig kidney transplant in brain-dead man marks advance, NYU surgeons say
A genetically altered pig kidney has functioned for 32 days in a brain-dead man. His heart is still beating, and he is breathing with the aid of a respirator.
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - August 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Lenny Bernstein Source Type: news

Improved Pig-to-Human Kidney Transplants Mark a Major Advance
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 16, 2023 -- Genetically engineered pig kidneys are nearing the point where they could provide a government-approved, sustainable supply of organs for sick humans awaiting a transplant, a pair of new studies argue. A lightly modified...
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - August 16, 2023 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news

A Pig ’ s Kidney Has Been Working in a Human Body for a Month, a Medical Milestone
(NEW YORK) — Surgeons transplanted a pig’s kidney into a brain-dead man and for over a month it’s worked normally — a critical step toward an operation the New York team hopes to eventually try in living patients. Scientists around the country are racing to learn how to use animal organs to save human lives, and bodies donated for research offer a remarkable rehearsal. The latest experiment announced Wednesday by NYU Langone Health marks the longest a pig kidney has functioned in a person, albeit a deceased one — and it’s not over. Researchers are set to track the ki...
Source: TIME: Health - August 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Lauren Neergard / Associated Press Tags: Uncategorized medicine Source Type: news

Lung Transplant Outcomes for COVID Respiratory Failure Similar to Other Etiologies
(MedPage Today) -- Patients who received lung transplants due to irreversible respiratory failure from SARS-CoV-2 infection had similar outcomes to those who received lung transplants for other reasons, a retrospective study found. Among 195 patients...
Source: MedPage Today Infectious Disease - August 16, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news

Pig kidney transplant in brain dead man marks advance, NYU surgeons say
A genetically altered pig kidney has functioned for 32 days in a man declared neurologically dead. His heart is still beating, and he is breathing with the aid of a respirator.
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - August 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Lenny Bernstein Source Type: news

Gut Microbiota Influences Survival After Pediatric Stem Cell Transplant
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 16, 2023 -- For pediatric patients, gut microbiota diversity and composition before allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) influences survival and likelihood of acute graft-versus-host disease, according to a...
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - August 16, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

O ̈tzi the iceman had receding hairline and dark skin tone, study reveals
Genome analysis reveals new physical details of mummified corpse found in ice of Italian AlpsDark eyes, receding black hair, few or no freckles and a darker skin tone. This is howO ̈tzi the iceman, the mummified corpse found trapped in the ice of the Italian Alps, would have looked while living.Researchers who conducted a higher-coverage analysis of the genome to learn more about O ̈tzi’s genetic history and the mummified man’s physical appearance have found genes associated with male-pattern baldness and darker skin tone.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 16, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Gabriella Sotelo Tags: Genetics Science Archaeology Italy Europe Forensic science World news Source Type: news

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