Health

Pediatric cancer doctors are sounding the alarm about a growing shortage of chemotherapy drugs for children.

Surgeons have transplanted a pig’s heart into a dying man in a bid to prolong his life.

UMass Memorial Health intends to move forward with plans to close the inpatient maternity unit at HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital in Leominster, Massachusetts, company officials confirmed Thursday, saying they do not have adequate staffing to safely offer their patients care. The closure has been a point of contention for the surrounding community. Opponents say closing the unit will have devastating impacts on…

Grammy- and Oscar-nominated indie musician Sufjan Stevens is relearning how to walk after the autoimmune disease Guillain-Barre Syndrome left him immobile, representatives confirmed to The Associated Press.

Supply problems and insurance complications have made it difficult for many patients to start and stay on new prescription medications used to treat obesity.

Johnson & Johnson is signing off on a new logo, more than 130 years after creating the old one.

It marked the longest a genetically modified pig kidney has ever functioned inside a human, albeit a deceased one. And by pushing the boundaries of research with the dead, the scientists learned critical lessons they’re preparing to share with the FDA — in hopes of eventually testing pig kidneys in the living.

Researchers found a link between sedentary lifestyles and chronic illnesses that are linked with increased dementia risk.

Doctors didn’t think she’d make it into adulthood, so when years passed, “it was always in the back of my head that today could be my last day,” she says.

When two high-profile athletes, Damar Hamlin and Bronny James, suffered unexpected, life-threatening sudden cardiac events it called attention to heart health in younger people. And while both survived, it doesn’t always work out that way. This fall there are new initiatives to help save lives. Some of those efforts are driving by parents who have lost their own children...

A medical device the size of a dinner plate was left inside a woman’s abdomen for 18 months.

This is part of the Biden administration’s effort to lower drug prices by negotiating directly with the manufacturers.

At 8 months pregnant, Kelly Spill became constipated and had blood in her stool. Doctors thought her pregnancy caused hemorrhoids. It was stage 3 colon cancer

A congenital heart defect was determined as the probable cause of Bronny James’ sudden cardiac arrest last month.

The cases were reported by recent guests of the Caesars Palace Hotel and Casino and The Orleans Hotel & Casino.

It turns out that an amino acid that our body produces may play a huge role in longevity. Here’s what scientists say about taurine.

Danny Trejo celebrated being “55 years clean” of alcohol and drugs on Aug. 23, marking the occasion with a beaming photo of himself on Instagram.

A systemwide IT outage caused by a cyberattack continues to affect Eastern Connecticut Health Network and Waterbury HEALTH. Both health networks are owned by Los Angeles-based Prospect Medical, which is experiencing a system-wide outage because of the cyberattack. ECHN said its hospitals and affiliated providers are continuing to treat patients and its emergency departments are open. The ECHN website says…

Pfizer hopes that its respiratory syncytial virus vaccine will be available to the public by the end of October or the beginning of November.

A rare species of so-called “flesh-eating” bacteria found in raw shellfish or seawater has been linked to five deaths in Florida this year, state health officials said.