Health

XiXinXing/Getty Images (HOUSTON) — A 6-month-old girl born with a life-threatening lung disorder is now breathing on her own thanks to a rare double lung transplant. Kylie Overfield was placed on a ventilator immediately after her birth on Nov. 10, 2023, due to surfactant B deficiency, a rare genetic condition that causes abnormalities in the […]

Isaac Lane Koval/Corbis/VCG/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A major new report shows stark disparities in breast cancer care, with non-white Americans and those without health insurance far less likely to be up to date with recommended screenings. Women under the age of 65 who do not have health insurance are 50% less likely to be […]

fstop123/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — An acrimonious divorce between a Texas couple fighting over their frozen embryos could end up having an impact on in vitro fertilization care in the entire state, and possibly a replay of the controversial court decision in Alabama that briefly ended IVF access in the state. Caroline Antoun has argued […]

Tetra Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Drug overdose deaths fell in 2023, marking the first decrease in five years, new provisional federal data published Wednesday showed. An estimated 107,543 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2023, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics. This is a 3% decrease […]

Brais Seara/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The damage of wildfires can expand far beyond the active blaze, as toxic smoke from Canadian wildfires crosses borders, enters homes and triggers health concerns, experts say. As of Monday, officials said at least 40 of the more than 140 active fires burning in the Canadian wildfires have been […]

MoMo Productions/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — For the last few months, JN.1 has been the dominant COVID-19 variant in the United States, making up the majority of cases. A new variant, however, has taken over and may lead to an increase in cases this summer. KP.2, which is an offshoot of the omicron variant, currently […]

Rick Slayman being discharged two weeks after pig kidney transplant. – Massachusetts General Hospital (BOSTON) — The 62-year-old man who received the first-ever pig kidney transplant in the world has died, his family announced on Saturday. Richard Slayman underwent the four-hour procedure in March at Massachusetts General Hospital and was discharged from the hospital two […]

Courtesy of Brooke Nelson (NEW YORK) — Brooke Nelson said she was over 200 pounds and struggling to lose weight when she decided to take part in a clinical trial of a new, minimally-invasive weight loss procedure. Within six months of the procedure, Nelson said she had lost over 20 pounds and changed how she […]

Julie McFadden, a hospice nurse in California, shares information about death on her TikTok account, @hospicenursejulie. — @hospicenursejulie/TikTok (NEW YORK) — Death is something everyone experiences but few people want to talk about. One nurse is trying to break that stigma, taking to TikTok to talk frankly about death, from what a person feels while […]

Jackyenjoyphotography/Getty Images (WEBSTER, N.Y.) — An upstate New York nurse has been accused of falsifying vaccine records for more than 100 children across the state. The New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) issued a $55,000 penalty against Sandra Miceli, a licensed nurse practitioner and registered professional nurse at Surviving Naturally in Monroe County. Miceli […]