In a speech broadcast to the Food and Drug Administration’s Maryland campus on Friday morning, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. introduced himself as the nation’s health secretary with a meandering speech touching on everything from birds of prey to pollution in Lake Erie to the C.I.A. Mr. Kennedy told the agencyContinue Reading
Surgeons removed a genetically engineered pig’s kidney from an Alabama woman after she experienced acute organ rejection, NYU Langone Health officials said on Friday. Towana Looney, 53, lived with the kidney for 130 days, which is longer than anyone else has tolerated an organ from a genetically modified animal. SheContinue Reading
Veterans gathered in Indianapolis and in places across the country on March 14 to protest the Trump administration’s staff and budget cuts to the Department of Veterans Affairs. Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Panic, fear, uncertainty, and anger. Those are the emotions mentalContinue Reading
Towana Looney, who received a genetically modified pig kidney in November 2024, had the organ removed after her body rejected it. Joe Carrotta for NYU Langone Health Joe Carrotta for NYU Langone Health The world’s longest-lasting pig organ transplant has failed, doctors announced Friday. Towana Looney, 53, of Gadsden, Ala.,Continue Reading
The Trump administration has directed the NIH to study the physical and mental health effects of gender transitioning. The treatments can include taking hormones such as testosterone as well as surgeries. Rory Doyle for The Washington Post/Getty Images Rory Doyle for The Washington Post/Getty Images The Trump administration has orderedContinue Reading
I am a veteran with PTSD, depression, anxiety and marital discord. The Veterans Affairs Department has been paying for me to see a therapist. At my last session, I shared with my therapist that I’d had a sexual dream about her. I did not share any specifics about the dream,Continue Reading
Private $20,000 health clinics offering genome sequencing and full-body scans. Gyms with $40,000 annual fees. Blood plasma exchanges for $10,000 or more a pop. One-on-one sleep coaching and $300 wearables. Pursuing “longevity” has become an expensive — not to mention time-consuming — hobby. But it doesn’t have to be: ExpertsContinue Reading
Seniors across the country are wearing very expensive bandages. Made of dried bits of placenta, the paper-thin patches cover stubborn wounds and can cost thousands of dollars per square inch. Some research has found that such “skin substitutes” help certain wounds heal. But in the past few years, dozens ofContinue Reading
The emergency department waiting room was jammed, as it always is, with patients sitting for hours, closely packed on hard metal chairs. Only those with conditions so dire they needed immediate care — like a heart attack — got seen immediately. One man had had enough. He pounded on theContinue Reading
Researchers integrated four organoids that represent the four components of the human sensory pathway, along which pain signals are conveyed to the brain. Stimulation of the sensory organoid (top) by substances, such as capsaicin, triggers neuronal activity that is then transmitted throughout the rest of the organoids. Pasca lab/Stanford MedicineContinue Reading
