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NYU Doctors Perform First-Ever Pig Kidney Transplant Combined With Heart Pump Implant
Another milestone in pig-to-human transplantation has been crossed, with doctors at New York University Langone today announcing the world’s first combination pig kidney and heart pump transplant. The recipient is a 54-year-old woman named Lisa Pisano who was diagnosed with terminal kidney disease and heart failure. The concept of animal-to-human organ transplantation, or xenotransplantation, has…
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A Supposedly Safer Hair-Straightening Ingredient Could Be Damaging People’s Kidneys
A woman’s hair care routine seems to have given her repeated bouts of kidney damage. In a new case study this month, her doctors describe how the woman’s use of hair-straightening products containing a certain ingredient likely injured her kidneys. The ingredient, called glyoxylic acid, has been tied to similar incidents in the past and…
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Nvidia Wants to Replace Nurses With AI For $9 an Hour
Your health could soon be in the hands of Nvidia-powered AI nurses, and they cost your healthcare provider next to nothing.
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Neil Young Back on Spotify After Joe Rogan Boycott
Two years ago, Neil Young pulled his music from Spotify in response to Joe Rogan’s spreading anti-vaccine misinformation on his podcast, which was prominently featured on the platform. Young is back on Spotify although he’s not too thrilled about it. “My decision comes as music services Apple and Amazon have started serving the same disinformation…