People who volunteer to donate a kidney face an even lower risk of death from the operation than doctors have long thought
August 28, 2024
Updated COVID-19 vaccines are on their way
August 22, 2024
New research suggests certain blood tests could help doctors diagnose Alzheimer's disease faster and more accurately
July 28, 2024
Some of the world's cleanest pigs are being raised in the Virginia mountains to supply kidneys and hearts for animal-to-human organ transplants
July 20, 2024
Some people develop a weird allergy to red meat after being bitten by a lone star tick yet find they can still eat pork from a surprising source - certain pigs originally bred for human organ transplants
July 19, 2024
Washington politics is drawing attention to cognitive testing, a 10-minute series of questions to assess different brain function
July 09, 2024
A woman who received a pig kidney transplant has died
July 09, 2024
A Massachusetts man can speak again after surgeons removed his cancerous voice box and replaced it with a donated one, a pioneering move
July 09, 2024
Scientists studying a Colombian family plagued by early-in-life Alzheimer's have found a rare gene variant that seems to delay initial symptoms by about five years
June 19, 2024
Government advisers say it’s time to update the recipe for the COVID-19 vaccines Americans will receive in the fall
June 05, 2024
Surgeons in New York have performed the world's first transplant of an entire human eye, an extraordinary addition to a face transplant
November 09, 2023
U.S. regulators have added another option for fall COVID-19 vaccination, updated shots made by Novavax
October 03, 2023
Fall vaccination season is in full swing, with health officials urging both an updated COVID-19 shot and flu vaccine for most everyone
September 28, 2023
Health authorities say a man in Mexico died from a type of bird flu called H5N2 that has never before been found in a human
June 05, 2024
Doctors say a woman who received a pig kidney transplant is back on dialysis after surgeons removed the gradually failing organ
May 31, 2024
For the first time, researchers have identified a genetic form of late-in-life Alzheimer's disease
May 06, 2024
Researchers revved up immune cells that shrank an extremely aggressive type of brain tumor when tested in a handful of patients
March 13, 2024
A study of older adults in China offers a closer look at the dominolike sequence of brain changes that lead to Alzheimer's
February 21, 2024
Women are far more likely than men to get autoimmune diseases, illnesses like lupus or rheumatoid arthritis that occur when the immune system mistakenly attacks their own bodies
February 01, 2024
Crib cameras are offering a clue to a rare but devastating tragedy _ when seemingly healthy young children suddenly die in their sleep and autopsies can’t tell why
January 04, 2024
Scientists have found a way to help Alzheimer's drugs seep inside the brain faster — using sound waves to jiggle a temporary opening in its protective shield
January 03, 2024
Maryland doctors say the second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig has died
October 31, 2023
The second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig has reached the one-month mark and a hospital video shows he's working hard to recover
October 20, 2023
Surgeons have transplanted a pig’s heart into a dying man in a bid to prolong his life
September 22, 2023
Dr_ Anthony Fauci was back before Congress, calling Republican allegations that he’d tried to cover up COVID-19's origins “simply preposterous.”
June 03, 2024
European shares open lower ahead of action-packed week; Fed in focus
Volkswagen may book up to $4.4 billion in provisions on capacity cuts, Jefferies says
Hedge funds switch to buying banks, insurance and trading firms, says Goldman Sachs
More rivers spill banks in central European floods, death toll rises
Breton says he is stepping down as France's EU commissioner, citing spat with von der Leyen
Formula 1 races take an unpredictable turn as McLaren boss Zak Brown revels in 'best season'
Man City hearing is the chance to clear the club's name or taint its dominance of English soccer
Tito Jackson, member of the Jackson 5, has died at 70, family says