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Robotic surgery in India gains footprint, cost bound to go down: Indian-origin evangelist

As the Indian healthcare sector embraces robotics surgery in a big way, the availability of a varie…

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A 57-year-old man receives a pig heart in a groundbreaking transplant to save him from heart disease

For the first time, doctors successfully used a pig heart in a human heart transplant to save a Mar…

Rebecca Cohen,Andrea Michelson   


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Heart transplants declined sharply during Covid-19 pandemic

Researchers have found that the number of heart transplants is declining sharply during the Covid-1…

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A Texas inmate on death row wants to delay his execution so he can donate a kidney

Ramiro Gonzalez, who was sentenced to death for killing a young woman, wants to find a kidney recip…

Mia Jankowicz   


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What to know about heart inflammation after MSNBC anchor's heart problems were triggered by a common cold

Journalist Yasmin Vossoughian shared her diagnoses of pericarditis and myocarditis, types of inflam…

Rachel Hosie   


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Scientists are sending free lab-made bacon to people who developed meat allergies from tick bites to try to understand the odd disorder

Alpha-gal syndrome is a fairly new tick-borne allergy. One lab is sending genetically modified baco…

Andrea Michelson   


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Hayden Panettiere's brother Jansen died from an enlarged heart, his family said. The condition can lead to heart failure and can affect all ages.

The Panettiere family said "Jansen's sudden passing was due to cardiomegaly (enlarged heart,) coupl…

Rebecca Cohen,Anna Medaris   


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Doctors changed the blood type of human lungs in the lab, opening the door to life-saving universal organs

Many patients die waiting for transplants because there are no compatible organs. Converting organs…

Morgan McFall-Johnsen   


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About 17 Americans die waiting for transplants each day. Scientists are trying to make more organs in 5 creative ways.

Organ shortages are causing preventable deaths and risky transplants. New experimental methods of g…

Morgan McFall-Johnsen   


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See how surgeons transplanted a pig kidney into a dead person in a groundbreaking operation

NYU Langone surgeons attached a working pig kidney to a human body via the blood vessels of the leg…

Gabby Landsverk   


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A biotech company wants to take human DNA and create artificial embryos that could be used to harvest organs for medical transplants

Jacob Hanna, who led a successful mouse "embryo" experiment, wants to recreate it with human cells …

Hannah Getahun   


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Pregnant people are at higher risk of breakthrough COVID than people with cancer and organ transplants, study finds

While vaccinated pregnant people were more likely to get COVID-19 than those with other comorbiditi…

Anna Medaris Miller   


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A mom of 2 donated her uterus to a stranger to help her get pregnant and now they're best friends

Chelsea Jovanovich met Cheryl Urban, her uterine donor in May 2021, days before giving birth to her…

Maria Noyen   


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Here's what it's like to receive a life-saving heart transplant in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic

As time went by, things became more serious. Finally, last August, doctors told her it was time to …

Connor Perrett,Connor Perrett   


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4 women were told they had stress, anxiety or fatigue. It turned out to be a serious heart issue.

Women spoke with Insider about how their heart issues were overlooked because they or their doctors…

Anna Medaris,Andrea Michelson   


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Three out of four harvested organs in the southern Indian city of Chennai went to foreigners

It is no secret that India’s healthcare sector is desperately shoddy, at least for those who lack…

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Matthew McConaughey says a doctor was caught lying to other doctors about giving him a hair transplant

The actor says he's been using the same "topical ointment" in his hair for 20 years but has never r…

Ayomikun Adekaiyero