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• Bladder Trouble Worsens With Age for Women, Study Confirms
• Blood Donors' Gender Doesn't Affect Outcomes for Recipients
• Breast Cancer Screening May Not Be Worth It for Women Over 70
• Cancer Takes Heavy Toll on Women's Work and Finances: Study
• Cancers Among the Young Are Rising Worldwide
• CDC Advisors to Discuss 3rd COVID Vaccine Dose for Immunocompromised
• Certain Health Conditions Up Risks for Severe COVID-19
• Common Heart Defect Limits Exercise Ability: Study
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• Could Microbiome Changes Explain Rise in Colon Cancer Among the Young?
• COVID Antibodies From Vaccination Are Almost 3 Times Higher Than From Infection
• COVID Antibody Treatment Is Safe, Effective in Transplant Patients
• COVID Drove Biggest Drop in U.S. Life Expectancy Since World War II
• COVID Vaccines May Still Leave Organ Transplant Recipients Unprotected
• COVID Vaccines Safe for Organ Transplant Recipients: Study
• COVID-19 Can Damage Lungs So Badly That 'Only Hope' is Transplant
• COVID-19 Death Risk Twice as High in New York City as Some Countries
• COVID-19 Has Taken a Toll on Organ Donation
• CRISPR Therapy Fights Rare Disease Where Protein Clogs Organs
• Dangerous Diabetes Tied to Pregnancy Is on the Rise
• Debunking Myths About Organ Donation
• Demand for Liver Transplant Rises Sharply Among Older Americans
• Do You Feel Old? It Could Be Aging You
• Doctors Report That Kidney Grown in Pig Worked in a Human
• Doctors Transplant Gene-Modified Pig Kidneys Into Brain-Dead Patient
• Doctors Transplant Kidneys to Children Without Need for Immune-Suppressing Drugs
• Does 'Prediabetes' Lead to Full-Blown Diabetes? Age May Be Key
• Donating Portion of Your Liver to Someone in Need Is Safe, Life-Saving: Study
• Donor's Immune Cells Could Help Transplant Recipients Avoid Organ Rejection
• Don't Wait to Lose Weight: Shedding Obesity in Youth Extends Life
• Double Lung Transplants Save Lives of Sickest COVID Patients
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• Early Periods Tied to Worse Menopause Symptoms
• Expert Panel Lowers Routine Screening Age for Diabetes to 35
• Feds Propose Overhaul of U.S. Organ Transplant System
• Fewer U.S. Women Aware of Their Heart Risks
• Fooled by Fake News: Does Age Matter?
• Gen X, Millennials in Worse Health Than Prior Generations at Same Age
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• Heart Disease Gaining on Cancer as Leading Cause of Death in Young Women
• Heart Transplant Successful in Young Man Who Survived Severe COVID-19
• 'Heart-in-a-Box' Can Be Lifesaving, Matching Up Distant Donors With Patients
• Heart's Electrical Signals Changed in First Pig-to-Human Cardiac Transplant
• Hearts From Drug Abusers Can Be Used for Transplants
• Hearts From Obese Donors Still Safe: Study
• Heavy Drinking Into Old Age Ups Health Risks: Study
• Helmetless Bikers Ride 'Donorcycles,' Organ Transplant Experts Warn
• How Dangerous Is Coronavirus to the Middle-Aged?
• How to Be a Living Liver Donor
• Immune System Clues to Why COVID Is Easier on Kids
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• Implant Can Warn Weeks Early That Transplanted Organ Will Be Rejected
• Improved Pig-to-Human Kidney Transplants Mark a Major Advance
• In a First, Scientists Grow Human Kidneys Inside Pigs
• In Breakthrough Transplant, Man Receives Genetically Modified Pig Heart
• In Primate Study, Antibody Treatment Prevents Organ Rejection After Transplant
• Innovative Kidney Donor 'Voucher' System Is Saving Lives
• Is It COVID? Early Signs May Differ by Age, Gender
• Kidney Damage Another Consequence of 'Long COVID,' Study Finds
• Kidney Transplant Patients at High Risk of Fatal COVID-19: Study
• Kidney Transplant Safe When Organ Donor Has COVID: Study
• Life-Saving Organ Transplants Plummet During COVID-19 Crisis
• Liver Cirrhosis Much More Deadly for Black Americans
• Liver Transplants From Donors Who Overdosed Rose During Pandemic
• Man Who Received First Pig Heart Transplant Has Died
• Many Americans Wrong About Sun's Skin Cancer Dangers: Poll
• Many Blood Cancer Patients Get Little Protection From COVID Vaccine
• Many 'High Priority' Patients Aren't Getting Put on Kidney Transplant Lists
• Many Hospitals Ignore Directives of Organ Transplant Waiting Lists: Study
• Many Older Americans Face Ageism Every Day, Survey Finds
• Many U.S. Mammography Centers Aren't Following Expert Guidelines: Report
• Marijuana Use Tied to Higher Odds for Thoughts of Suicide
• Menopause May Someday Disappear as Women Postpone Pregnancy: Study
• Mixed Progress Against Cancers in Teens, Young Adults
• Monkey Given Gene-Edited Pig Kidney Still Alive Two Years Later
• More Evidence COVID Shots Less Effective for People With Weak Immune Systems
• More Young Americans Developing Unhealthy Predictors of Heart Disease
• Most Older Adults Plan to Travel Soon, With Precautions: Poll
• Navy Ship Outbreak Shows Most Young Aren't Spared COVID Symptoms
• Nearly a Third of Young Black Americans Have High Blood Pressure
• Need a New Liver? Your Survival Odds May Depend on Race
• Neuro Surprise: Some Brain Skills Might Improve With Age
• New Approach Allows Safe Transplant of Kidneys Tainted by Hepatitis C
• New Approach to Transplants Could Boost Supply of Donor Hearts
• New Lease on Life for Two Lung Cancer Patients After Pioneering Double-Lung Transplant
• Not the Flu: COVID Death Risk Is 3.5 Times That of Influenza
• Obesity Ups Odds for Severe COVID-19 in Younger Patients
• Obesity Ups Odds for Severe COVID-19, But Age Matters
• Old Age No Bar to Successful Heart Transplant, Study Finds
• On Waitlist for Liver Transplants, Women Die More Often Than Men
• Organ From Live Donor Best When Child Needs New Kidney
• Organs Donated by People Who Had COVID Are Safe: Study
• Pandemic Putting Americans Under Great Mental Strain: Poll
• Patients With Sickle Cell Disease Often Overlooked for Life-Saving Kidney Transplants
• People on Immune-Suppressing Meds Fare Equally Well With Severe COVID
• Pig Hearts Successfully Transplanted Into 2 Brain-Dead Patients
• Race Affects Outcomes for Young Heart Transplant Patients
• Red Cross Warns of Severe Blood Shortage
• Scientists Create Synthetic Mouse Embryo With Brain, Beating Heart
• Scientists Devise Way to Keep Donor Hearts Viable Longer
• Scientists Restore Some Function to Pig Tissues 1 Hour After Death
• Severe COVID for People Under 45: Who's Most at Risk?
• Signs of Developing Adult Diabetes Seen as Early as Age 8: Study
• 'So Happy:' World's First Hand/Face Transplant Patient Doing Well
• Some Donor Livers Keep Working for 100 Years: Study
• Some Folks Do Age Slower Than Others
• State of Mind Matters for Survival After Heart Attack
• Study Sheds Light on Why COVID-19 Hits Elderly Hardest
• Surgeons Perform Transplant of Gene-Tweaked Pig Heart Into Second Patient
• Survived a Heart Attack? Long Work Hours Raise Your Odds for Another
• There May Be a 'Best Bedtime' for Your Heart
• There May Be a Better Way to Allocate Precious Donor Lungs for Transplant
• Thinking of Donating a Kidney? New Data Shows It's Safe
• Third Vaccine Dose Can Help Shield Transplant Patients From COVID
• Treatment Used on Donated Hearts May Be Useless, Even Harmful: Study
• U.S. Kidney Transplant Outcomes Are Improving
• Under 50 and Had a Heart Attack? Quit Smoking, and You'll Live Longer
• Vaccinating Oldest First for COVID Saves the Most Lives: Study
• Vasectomy Reversal Just as Successful in Men Over 50
• Virus Found in Pig Heart Transplanted Into Man Who Later Died
• Vitamin D Might Help Prevent Early-Onset Colon Cancer
• 'Walking Miracles': Born With Lungs Reversed, They Suffered Until Getting Double-Organ Transplants
• When COVID Triggers Loss of Smell, Younger Patients Recover It Sooner
• When Kidney Transplant Fails, Trying Again Is Best Option: Study
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