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Liver Transplant Candidates Who Improved Frailty Scores by 0.4 Points Had Roughly Half the Risk of Waitlist Death

A study tied modest frailty gains in a prehab program to lower waitlist death risk in liver transplant candidates. Here is what caregivers can ask the care team.

Medical Daily · Oct 23

Nonprofit Hospitals Charging $5,500 or More for Longevity Checkups Face Questions Over Tax Breaks and Charity Care

Tax-exempt hospitals now sell longevity programs from $5,500 to as much as $45,000 a year. Here's what's included, what insurance covers, and what critics ask.

Medical Daily · Oct 8

Four ways you are sabotaging your health without realizing it

A lot of roads lead to back pain, say experts, including binge-watching your favourite shows

The Independent UK · Apr 17

These foods can help maintain a healthy blood pressure

Nearly half of American adults live with high blood pressure

The Independent UK · Aug 31, 2025

German woman has no signs of cancer after undergoing a new double-lung transplant surgery

The surgery method could offer new hope for some late-stage cancer patients who are out of other options.

Euronews · May 11, 2025

Pregnant Woman And Baby Saved After Doctors Identify Her Bad Cough, Breathlessness Was Rare Tumor In Chest

The 26-year-old had a large tumor in her chest from stage 3 melanoma, blocking the artery to her right lung.

Medical Daily · Dec 26, 2024

US man gets kidney transplant while awake

Being able to transplant kidneys using only local anesthetic could shorten patients' hospital stays and make the procedure accessible to more people, doctors say.

LiveScience · Jun 25, 2024

New Study Uncovers How Alzheimer’s Butchers Brain Cells

Alzheimer’s results in a substantial loss of brain cells known as neurons. 

Zenger · Jan 18, 2024

He lived without lungs for a day. How a remarkable transplant operation saved him

The flu almost killed a 34-year-old man who was addicted to vaping. But an innovative doctor – and some DD-sized breast implants – made him eligible for a transplant.

WEKU · Nov 12, 2023

First heart transplant through VA-Northwestern Medicine collaboration goes to Navy vet

Dwayne Patterson served aboard the USS Carl Vinson. His heart transplant was at Northwestern Medicine, which operates a clinic at the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center in Chicago to treat advanced heart failure.

Chicago Sun-Times · Nov 11, 2023