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‘Do not be complicit’: Pols speak out at NYU Langone after hospitals restrict gender-affirming care
State and city lawmakers rallied with advocates outside of NYU Langone’s Tisch Hospital in Manhattan on Feb. 6 to demand the complete restoration of gender-affirming care services nearly a week after ...
NH man becomes 2nd person known to be living with a pig kidney
Mass General Brigham has announced the successful completion of another gene-edited pig kidney transplant, the first of a ...
Experimental transplants with organs from gene-edited pigs see major steps forward
On Friday, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital announced that a 66-year-old New Hampshire man had successfully received ...
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First Gene-Edited Pig Kidney Functioned Until Recipient's Death
The first recipient of a gene-edited pig kidney died from cardiac causes 52 days after xenotransplantation. The world's first ...
What to know about SCAD, a less common type of heart attack that disproportionately affects women
A spontaneous coronary artery dissection, or SCAD, leads to bleeding inside the artery wall. A survivor shares her symptoms.
Surgeons successfully transplant genetically edited pig kidney into U.S. man
A New Hampshire man fought for the chance at a pig kidney transplant, spending months getting into good enough shape to be ...
Surgeons Transplant Engineered Pig Kidney Into Fourth Patient
It was the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States, and the first of three that will be done at Mass General as part of a new clinical trial sanctioned by the Food and Drug Administration.
NYC Comptroller Brad Lander backs sex-change operations for minors, opposes Trump trans ban
City Comptroller Brad Lander backs sex change surgeries and procedures on transgender youths and blasted as discriminatory ...
When Hospitals Cave to Trump, Health Workers Must Disobey
What makes the guidelines issued by NYU Langone and NYC Health + Hospitals especially foreboding is that both memos directly contravene recent guidance.
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Protests erupt across the country as trans people find themselves locked out of health care
Families moved states to keep access to gender-affirming care, only for hospitals to stop providing it when Trump took office ...