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A patient received two kidneys and a whole liver from a pig, the first example of multi-organ xenotransplantation.

Ever since the COVID pandemic hit in 2020, I’ve been eager to read novels that explore what COVID was, and continues to be like. At the time, writers joked incessantly about how Shakespeare wrote King Lear during an episode of plague in Renaissance England. How would we all use our time? Would we be writing masterpieces? Would the COVID pandemic generate a new, thrilling era of artistic production? Would everyone be writing a pandemic novel?

Over 200,000 incarcerated people face deadly summer heat in California and Texas.

States can hire navigators to help people manage the reporting requirements and remain enrolled in Medicaid.

Kennedy has responded to outbreaks of measles and whooping cough in the US by pushing disinformation about vaccines.

Critics say the new rule will also harm people with serious illnesses such as cancer and HIV/AIDS.

Last week, the Cuban Center for Molecular Immunology (CIM) announced a major health breakthrough with VAXIRA, a vaccine treatment for lung cancer. This is a remarkable achievement, made only more impressive by the fact that this is Cuba’s second lung cancer vaccine. The vaccine stops the progression of cancer by developing the patient’s immune system [...]