A Pig Kidney Kept This Man Alive for Nine Months, Then He Got a Human One
A Record-Breaking Transplant That Could Change Everything Tim Andrews of New Hampshire didn’t know it at the time, but when he received a genetically edited pig kidney on January 25, 2025, he was about to set a medical record that would reshape the future of…
Major Medical Groups Step Up With Fall Vaccine Guidance as Federal Health Agencies Go Silent
Doctors Fill a Federal Void Major medical groups have released their vaccine recommendations for the 2026-2027 respiratory virus season, stepping in as federal health agencies face credibility concerns under the influence of anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. It is an extraordinary moment in American…
Starting Hormone Therapy Before 56 May Sharply Cut a Woman’s Dementia Risk
A Critical Window for Brain Protection A sweeping new study has added powerful evidence to one of the most pressing questions in women’s health: can hormone replacement therapy protect the aging brain? The answer, researchers now say, may hinge almost entirely on timing. Hormone replacement…
A 6-Year-Old Beat Cancer and Paralysis — Now He’s Walking and Fighting for More
A Diagnosis No Parent Expects When Matias was just 7½ months old, his parents, Rachel Osborn and Jason Kling, began noticing symptoms they couldn’t explain. They weren’t dramatic, obvious warning signs. The symptoms were ones they “really didn’t know what they were” — “kind of…
The Drug-Resistant Ringworm Fungus Spreading Silently Across the Globe
A Familiar Infection With an Alarming New Face Most people think of ringworm as a minor nuisance — an itchy, circular rash that clears up with a cream from the drugstore. But a new strain spreading rapidly across the world is turning that assumption on…
Watching TV for Hours Could Be Quietly Increasing Your Dementia Risk
It’s Not Just About Sitting — It’s About What You’re Doing While You Sit Most people have heard the advice to sit less and move more. But a growing body of research is drawing a far more nuanced conclusion: when it comes to dementia risk,…
A Five-Second Facial Video Could Soon Detect High Blood Pressure and Diabetes
A Camera Glance That Could Change How Millions Are Diagnosed No blood draw. No cuff around your arm. No clinic appointment. Just five seconds of video of your face — and an AI that can tell whether you have high blood pressure or diabetes. That’s…
9/11’s Hidden Toll: Cancer Cases Among Survivors Now Outnumber First Responders
A Crisis That Did Not End on September 11 Twenty-five years after the Twin Towers fell, the attacks are still killing people — just more slowly, and in far greater numbers than most Americans realize. The number of 9/11 cancer victims has skyrocketed 1,680% over…
Millions of Women May Be Misdiagnosed With UTIs They Don’t Actually Have
A Diagnosis That Keeps Cycling Back — With No Real Answer Every day in her Los Angeles urology practice, Dr. Maria Uloko sees the same patient: a woman diagnosed with recurrent urinary tract infections, who has taken repeated rounds of antibiotics and is confused about…
Measles Deaths, Record Cases, and Three Growing Outbreaks Alarm Health Officials
A Crisis That Was Supposed to Be History The outbreaks come during the nation’s worst measles year in more than three decades. There have been 36 new outbreaks reported in 2026, and 94% of confirmed cases — 2,614 of 2,777 — are outbreak-associated. What makes…
