Tag: medicine

Since it was first identified in 1983, HIV has infected more than 85 million people and caused some 40 million deaths worldwide.While medication known...

A large, long-term trial of the weight-loss medication Wegovy (semaglutide) found that people tended to lose weight over the first 65 weeks on the...

“The premise of this is great,” says Earric Lee, a physiologist with the Montreal Heart Institute, who was not involved in the study but...

Richard “Rick” Slayman, the first person to receive a kidney from a genetically modified pig, has died almost two months after the transplant. He...

When donated blood is in low supply, platelets are even scarcer. These cell fragments, which are essential for blood clotting, have a short shelf...

Rather than building a device from the ground up, Synchron and Paradromics have taken inspiration from previous medical devices. Paradromics’ design, for instance, is...

Google spent much of the past year hustling to build its Gemini chatbot to counter ChatGPT, pitching it as a multifunctional AI assistant that...

A 54-year-old New Jersey woman has become the second living person to receive a genetically engineered pig kidney. The surgery, carried out at...

When the team infected mice with Candida albicans strains taken from the severely affected Covid patients, they discovered that the mice generated increased...

Brian Bussard has 25 tiny chips in his brain. They were installed in February 2022 as part of a study testing a wireless...