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Mar 9, 2016

First Uterus Transplant in US Has Failed Due to Complications

The woman who received the first uterus transplant in the United States experienced a sudden complication recently, forcing doctors to remove the transplanted organ, according to a statement released today (March 9) from the Cleveland Clinic, where the procedure was performed. The Cleveland Clinic first announced the uterus transplant on...

Mar 27, 2016

Are Simulated Human Hearts As Good As Animal Models? (Op-Ed)

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. My mother bought her first GPS in the 1990s. A few months later, she came home angry because it had directed her to the wrong side of the city,...

Apr 6, 2016

Woman's Weight-Loss Surgery Leads to Vision Loss

A woman's vision loss and lesions on her eyes turned out to have an unexpected cause: a vitamin deficiency stemming from weight-loss surgery, according to a recent report of her case. The woman, in her early 40s, visited an ophthalmology clinic in Texas because she was having vision problems and...

Apr 25, 2016

An Unusual Case of a Bulging Esophagus

Some men simply don't like the way they look without their shirt on. But one man in Germany who went to doctors with concerns about his appearance had a more unusual reason for wanting to avoid being seen bare chested, a new case report suggests. The 60-year-old man went to...

Apr 27, 2016

Costly, Deadly, Complicated: These 7 Surgeries Take the Biggest Toll

Costly, Deadly, Complicated: These 7 Surgeries Take the Biggest Toll (Image credit: Yuriy Rudyy | Shutterstock.com)Just seven types of emergency surgery account for 80 percent of the total costs, deaths and complications of all emergency surgeries in the U.S., according to a new study published in the journal JAMA Surgery....

May 5, 2016

Splat! Paintball Blow Causes Liver Damage in Teen

A game of paintball had an unfortunate ending when a teen in England wound up needing liver surgery after being struck in the abdomen, according to a new report of the young man's case. The injury was the first instance of a person suffering liver damage from playing paintball, the...

May 10, 2016

Big Gulp: Man Swallows Cellphone, Needs Surgery

A man in Ireland swallowed an entire cellphone that became lodged in his stomach and was tricky to remove, according to a new report of the case. The 29-year-old man was a prisoner who was brought to the emergency room after he claimed to have swallowed a cellphone earlier that...

May 16, 2016

Doctors Perform US' 1st Penis Transplant

A 64-year-old man in Massachusetts has become the first person in the United States to receive a penis transplant, doctors announced today. The patient, Thomas Manning, needed his penis removed in 2012 because of aggressive penile cancer. The penile transplant was performed in order to reconstruct the genitalia so it...

May 17, 2016

Penis Transplant: Why It's Done & What Can Go Wrong

The recent announcement of the first U.S. penile transplant is exciting news, and brings hope for many men, including injured combat veterans. But the procedure also comes with risks that must be weighed against the benefits for patients, experts say. On Monday (May 16), doctors announced that a 64-year-old man...

May 23, 2016

'Poop Transplant' Changes Play Out Over Several Months, Study Finds

SAN DIEGO — Patients who undergo a poop transplant to treat severe diarrhea often see their symptoms get better within days, but their gut bacteria continue to undergo dramatic changes for at least three months afterward, a new study finds. Researchers analyzed the gut bacteria of eight patients who had...

Aug 3, 2016

Donald Trump's Draft Deferment: What Are Heel Spurs?

Donald Trump received a draft deferment during the Vietnam War because a doctor diagnosed him with bone spurs in his heels, The New York Times reported yesterday. Bone spurs are bony outgrowths that develop on the edges of a person's bones. When these growths occur on a person's heel, they...

Aug 5, 2016

Strange Beasts: Why Human-Animal Chimeras Might Be Coming

The federal government may soon lift its ban on funding research that uses so-called human-animal chimeras. But what medical benefits could such research bring? Yesterday, the National Institutes of Health announced it plans to consider funding research that would inject human stem cells into animal embryos. This would create an...

Oct 7, 2016

Hair Plugs? Joe Buck Puts Cosmetic Addictions in Spotlight

Fox Sports announcer Joe Buck recently shared that he had an addiction to hair plugs, and it almost cost him his career. In an exclusive with Sports Illustrated and in his upcoming memoir, Buck described the overwhelming fear he had of losing his hair. The possibility of balding so consumed...

Oct 10, 2016

Stem Cells May Help Repair Broken Monkey Hearts

Stem cells may be able to repair broken hearts, a small new study in monkeys finds. In the study, the researchers transplanted heart muscle cells that were made from the stem cells of a macaque into the damaged hearts of five other macaques. The transplanted cells integrated with the monkeys'...

Dec 8, 2016

Conjoined Twin Girls Successfully Separated

Conjoined twin girls who shared much of their lower body were successfully separated after a surgery that took 17 hours, their doctors said. The 2-year-old girls, Erika and Eva Sandoval, were born joined from the lower chest downwards, and shared a liver, a bladder and a leg, according to a...