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Washington (AFP) - Surgeons in the United States have transplanted a modified pig kidney into a living person for the second time, a hospital said Wednesday, celebrating an advance in animal-to-human organ transplants. The procedure at NYU Langone Health in New York was carried out in April on Lisa Pisano, 54, who had suffered heart failure and end-stage kidney disease, with doctors giving her just weeks to live barring some kind of medical intervention. Surgeons implanted a mechanical heart pump in Pisano days before the transplant, which NYU Langone Health said was a world-first for this com...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Three years after becoming the first American state to decriminalize all drugs, Oregon has reversed course, making possession of even small amounts an offense again. Governor Tina Kotek on Monday signed a law that will provide for up to six months in prison for anyone caught with hard drugs like fentanyl, heroin, cocaine or ecstasy, starting in September. The reversal ends a three-year experiment that left police officers handing out $100 fines and cards with details on how users could get treatment for their addictions. The plan was to treat drug use as an illness, rather ...
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Washington (AFP) - If the US Supreme Court, which on Tuesday hears a sensitive case on the availability of abortion pills, ultimately decides to restrict their access, it will impinge on the scientific authority of the federal Food and Drug Administration in unprecedented and consequential ways. While the case specifically deals with access to mifepristone -- the first of two pills taken in medication abortions -- a broad ruling could threaten access to a number of other drugs used for a wide variety of conditions, experts tell AFP. The mifepristone pill, first authorized by the FDA in 2000, ...
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Washington (AFP) - In a quintessentially American tale of race and politics, the lowly menthol cigarette is playing a curiously large role in the US presidential election this year. A proposed ban from President Joe Biden's administration on the mint-flavored smokes has miffed some African Americans, a key Democratic Party base. To complicate matters, narratives linked to the tobacco lobby have ginned up fears that the ban could lead to over policing and racism. Those are normally left-wing concerns, but in an election year, anything goes -- and Republicans are using the issue to try to appeal...
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Washington (AFP) - After the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are children, women who were undergoing fertility treatments in the southern US state had their lives thrown into shock and uncertainty. One woman had her long-awaited embryo transfer canceled, while another did not know when or if she would be able to retrieve her frozen eggs, they told US media. The state supreme court ruled in mid-February that embryos created by in vitro fertilization (IVF) should have the rights of children. Destroying abnormal or non-viable embryos -- among other common measures practiced by fer...
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Havana (AFP) - Cuban cardiologist Alexey Lopez, 59, is sleeping a bit better since his salary got a bump -- part of government efforts to stop its renowned health care system from bleeding doctors amid the island's worst economic crisis in decades. But Lopez fears the wage boost will not be enough to lure back his colleagues who are among some 40,000 Cuban medical staff that quit in 2022 and 2023, according to official figures. He told AFP "we were losing sleep" making ends meet before incentive bonuses were introduced last month for night and weekend shifts, seniority, and work in specialize...
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Las Vegas (AFP) - Among the more than 3,500 booths at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, only a few focus exclusively on women's health, including a cervical cancer screening device and a wristband to anticipate hot flushes. South Korea's Aidot presented Cerviray AI, which enables remote screening for uterine cancer with the help of artificial intelligence. According to the World Health Organization, it is the fourth most common cancer in women with around 570,000 new cases and around 311,000 deaths reported worldwide in 2018. Yet uterine cancer is one of the easiest forms of ca...
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Las Vegas (AFP) - Technology causes us to lose sleep, but can it also give it back? Companies aiming to help insomniacs, inveterate snorers and nap lovers showed off their latest gadgets at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. "We are the world's first AI powered... sleep tracker and personal sleep stimulator that enhances deep sleep and also the time to fall asleep," said Kimi Doan, Investment Manager at Earable neuroscience. She presented the "Brainband," recently launched for almost $500. Designed as a cushioned crown, the band's gold-plated sensors analyze brain activity in real tim...
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Las Vegas (AFP) - CES, the annual high tech gadget extravaganza in Las Vegas, again delivers its wave of new inventions and cutting edge technology with artificial intelligence this year's unavoidable buzzword. Here's a look at some selected examples shown to the media, ahead of the official opening on Tuesday. Mirror, mirror on the wall......who's the healthiest of them all? Called "MagicMirror," NuraLogix's connected mirror scanned the face of the company's marketing executive Lindsay Brennan determining in a matter of seconds her body mass index, blood pressure and even her "mental stress i...
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Washington (AFP) - Does Donald Trump truly weigh 215 pounds, as stated by authorities after his arrest on racketeering and conspiracy charges in Georgia? Many Americans are not buying it. Trump, who posed for a mug shot during the booking process in Atlanta on Thursday, was reportedly allowed to provide his own statistics to the Fulton County Jail. It listed the height of inmate number "PO1135809" as six foot three inches (1.9 meters), his weight as 215 pounds (97 kilograms) and his hair color as either "Blond or Strawberry." The response was skeptical. "If Donald Trump is 215 lbs, like he sai...
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