
Opinion: Maternal-fetal surgery is not an alternative to abortion care
Every day, pregnant people across the United States get the news that the futures they imagined for their babies are at risk due to a fetal condition. It may be …
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Every day, pregnant people across the United States get the news that the futures they imagined for their babies are at risk due to a fetal condition. It may be …
Read MoreClaudia Donohue was on the operating table first thing in the morning. It wasn’t where she wanted to end up when she first learned she had lung cancer. When she …
Read MoreThe amputation happened when the individual was perhaps 12 years old, the skeleton indicates. Gone is the lower portion of the left leg. And somehow, the individual survived the surgical …
Read MoreCasinos dazzle you with flashing lights, high-stakes tables, and the chance to win millions of dollars. The house always wins, but casinos still trick people into thinking they will make …
Read MoreThe devastation caused by malnutrition, HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria in low income countries is well known in the U.S. and other high-income countries, due in part to masterful marketing that …
Read MoreMonica da Silva, a critical care and cardiac anesthesiologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, was counseling a patient who had been in a car accident. She had suffered …
Read MoreWhen a surgeon asked Sharona Ben-Haim during a 2008 interview for a neurosurgery residency program whether she planned to have children, she responded the only way she felt she could: …
Read MoreOn the heels of some important “firsts” this past year, xenotransplantation — grafting animal organs into humans — is on the cusp of crossing over into new territory: human trials. …
Read MoreThe first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig has died, two months after the groundbreaking experiment, the Maryland hospital that performed the surgery announced Wednesday. David Bennett, …
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