Roni Caryn Rabin
‘Race is not a biological risk factor’: American Heart Association reassesses use of race in calculating risk of heart attacks and strokes
The cardiac-risk algorithm is an acknowledgment that, unlike sex or age, race identification in and of itself isn't a biological ...
Genetically-modified pig kidney transplants into live patients may be next in wake of successful transplants into brain-dead patients
Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham published a peer-reviewed study showing that modified pig kidneys performed complex life-sustaining ...
Self-managed abortion: How well does misoprostol alone work to end pregnancies even at later gestation periods?
Most women who took abortion drugs were successful even at later gestation periods, researchers reported ...
3-D printed ears: First body part made with a person’s own cells
A 20-year-old woman who was born with a small and misshapen right ear has received a 3-D printed ear implant ...
How COVID steals sense of smell
Few of Covid-19’s peculiarities have piqued as much interest as anosmia, the abrupt loss of smell that has become a ...
Here’s how COVID attacks your ability to smell
Few of Covid-19’s peculiarities have piqued as much interest as anosmia, the abrupt loss of smell that has become a ...
Second pig-to-human organ transplant: GM kidneys successfully implanted in a patient
Surgeons at the University of Alabama at Birmingham reported on [January 20] that they had for the first time successfully ...
GMO heart transplant: In breakthrough, man with terminal disease receives heart from altered pig and is in recovery
A 57-year-old man with life-threatening heart disease has received a heart from a genetically modified pig, a groundbreaking procedure that ...
Why overweight people face increased dangers from COVID
From the start of the pandemic, the coronavirus seemed to target people carrying extra pounds. Patients who were overweight or ...
First pig-grown kidney transplant successfully trialed in humans
Researchers have long sought to grow organs in pigs that are suitable for transplantation into humans. Technologies like cloning and ...
Should race be considered when diagnosing kidney disease?
A scientific task force on [September 23] called for jettisoning a common measure of kidney function that adjusts results by ...
Unvaccinated Americans 11 times as likely as the vaccinated to die of COVID, research finds, bolstering case for mandatory shots
Just a day after President Biden issued broad mandates aimed at encouraging American workers to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, ...
Information about GMOs missing on food labels
The Food and Drug Administration does not require clear identification and labeling of food products made with genetically engineered plants ...
NIH to researchers: study males and females equally from cellular studies on up
Amid growing evidence that many drugs are not as effective in women as in men, the National Institutes of Health ...
In Israel, push to screen for breast and ovarian cancer genes leaves many conflicted
Israeli Jews, facing the world's highest incidences of breast and ovarian cancer, but among the lowest rates of mastectomies, are ...