Health

The pig's liver functioned in the patient's body for a period of ten days.

A new federal program seeks to make these life-changing treatments available to patients with low incomes — and it could be a model to help states pay for other expensive therapies.

Research indicates that nursing homes owned by for-profit companies, particularly private equity and real estate investors, tend to have inadequate staffing, lower quality ratings, and more regulatory violations.

Researching cell-based therapies for arthritis is challenging because individuals often report significant relief from placebos, creating a challenge in sorting out whether they experienced relief from the treatment because they thought it would work.

MSNBC host and former White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Wednesday that third-party candidates like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are a “huge, huge, huge problem” for President Biden’s reelection campaign. “If you look at RFK Jr., it’s the name recognition issue,” Psaki said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” noting that the Kennedy name was particularly…

A pair of senators introduced a bill on Wednesday that would make it necessary for the State Department to include information about xylazine in its yearly report. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Tim Kaine (D-Va.) introduced the legislation on Wednesday, which would require the State Department to include data on xylazine, also known as “tranq,” in its annual International Narcotics Control Strategy (INCSR) Report. The report is meant to…