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Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, researchers have been trying to determine why this virus creates such negative long-term effects compared with most coronaviruses. Now, a multi-institutional…

To doctors and nurses working 75 years ago, when the UK’s National Health Service was founded, a modern ward would be completely unrecognizable. Fast-forward into the future, and hospitals are likely to look very different again. These are…

Cancers often release molecules into the bloodstream that pathologically alter the liver, shifting it to an inflammatory state, causing fat buildup and impairing its normal detoxifying functions, according to a study from investigators at…

Elana Gotkine THURSDAY, May 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Heart transplant (HT) recipients from donors with active COVID-19 have increased mortality at six months and one year, while survival is similar…

Storing donor lungs for transplant at 10 degrees Celsius markedly increases the length of time the organ can live outside the body according to research led by a team of scientists at the Toronto Lung Transplant Program in the Ajmera…

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration said it will attempt to break up the network that runs the nation’s organ transplant system as part of a broader modernization effort.More people than ever are getting new organs, with…

Elana Gotkine MONDAY Feb. 27, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Transplantation of organs from severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) nucleic acid test (NAT)-positive donors seems safe for…

Physician’s Briefing Staff THURSDAY, Feb. 9, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Massachusetts legislators have proposed a bill that would allow prison inmates to donate their organs or bone marrow as a way to…

By STEVE LeBLANC - Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A proposal to let Massachusetts prisoners donate organs and bone marrow to shave time off their sentence is raising profound ethical and legal questions…

Cambridge scientists have identified an off-patent drug that can be repurposed to prevent COVID-19 -- and may be capable of protecting against future variants of the virus -- in research involving a unique mix of 'mini-organs', donor…