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'Super healthy' teen fights kidney failure after eating McDonald's in weeks leading up to deadly E. coli outbreak
October 30, 2024 | 1:48am“I started throwing up, having diarrhea, and it was bloody, so it scared me.”
Beloved Brooklyn pizzeria saves dying customer, finds him a kidney donor: 'Don’t know how I got to be so lucky'
October 15, 2024 | 5:57pmIt's another reason to love Lucali.
Man loses almost 240 pounds to help sister suffering from kidney failure: 'I was eating my way to an early grave'
August 27, 2024 | 2:46pmMatthew Flanagan, 24, tipped the scales at 437 pounds as a teenager and once spent nearly $8,000 on takeaways in one year.
Gen X, millennials at higher risk for 17 cancers: 'critical' report
July 31, 2024 | 6:30pmHere's another reason for a midlife crisis.
NJ woman who received a pig kidney transplant plus a heart pump has died: 'Just took a chance'
July 9, 2024 | 4:33pmWASHINGTON — A woman who received a pig kidney transplant -- along with an implanted device to keep her heart beating – has died, her surgeon announced Tuesday. Lisa Pisano was near...
Kevin Costner reveals he had kidney stones, was on morphine filming ‘Hidden Figures’
June 30, 2024 | 12:34pm"I wanted to cry, but there was everybody watching, so I didn't," Kevin Costner said about getting sick on the set of "Hidden Figures."
Hospital patient, 28, undergoes kidney transplant awake and sees new organ during operation: 'Incredible experience'
June 24, 2024 | 10:45pm“Inside the operating room, it was an incredible experience being able to show a patient what their new kidney looked like before placing it inside the body.”
Organ-transplant container falls out the back of rushing NYC medical supply truck
April 13, 2024 | 10:38amA package potentially transporting a human kidney fell out of the back of a medical supply truck in Sunnyside, Queens on Tuesday morning, according to a shocked user on the...
Chocolate could help with weight loss and prevent Alzheimer's: study
April 2, 2024 | 10:16amChocolate lovers rejoice — the sweet treat is good for your health in more ways than one.
Migraines an 'important' warning sign for strokes in young adults: new research
March 26, 2024 | 7:37pm"These findings are significant because most of our attention has been focused on traditional risk factors" for strokes, said the study's lead author.
83% of tattoo inks contain hidden ingredients linked to cancer, organ damage: study
February 28, 2024 | 10:24amAmericans are unwittingly exposing themselves to tattoo inks that contain organ-damaging chemicals, disturbing new research has revealed.
My baby was born with 4 kidneys — she's thriving despite the very rare condition
January 16, 2024 | 9:48pm“My daughter is rare and unique,” Isis' mother, Thalia Silva Alves, 21, told local media.
Mom who lost arms, legs in ‘perfect storm’ over kidney stone infection heads home
January 15, 2024 | 3:08pm"I had a peace about me," the mom said of news she was losing all four limbs. "I just felt God's presence saying, 'It's going to be OK. You're alive."
Mom-of-2 loses arms, legs in 'perfect storm' over kidney stone infection
December 31, 2023 | 1:50pmA mom-of-two woke up at a Kentucky hospital with both legs amputated – and learned she’d soon lose her arms too – in a “perfect storm” that began with a...
'Game-changing' procedure could have major impact on heart disease by treating this 'silent killer'
December 26, 2023 | 1:32pmPeople with treatment-resistant hypertension could benefit from a new procedure that the FDA recently approved.
Chinese Australian writer fears dying in Beijing detention after being diagnosed with a kidney cyst
August 28, 2023 | 5:59amChinese Australian writer and democracy blogger Yang Hengjun has told his family he fears he will die in a Beijing detention center after being diagnosed with a kidney cyst, prompting...
Pig kidney transplant into brain-dead man could be a game-changer
August 16, 2023 | 2:13pm"We know this has the potential to save thousands of lives," said the lead surgeon of the groundbreaking operation.
I donated a kidney to my husband — we were a 1 in 22 million match
August 14, 2023 | 3:37pm"I can't put into words how thankful I am; it is the best gift she could ever give me."
Doctors remove ‘world’s largest' kidney stone that's the size of a grapefruit
June 15, 2023 | 2:46pmDoctors in Sri Lanka set a new Guinness World Record when they removed the world’s largest kidney stone from a retired soldier earlier this month.
Tina Turner worried she put herself 'in great danger' before death
May 24, 2023 | 4:31pm“Kidneys fail without pain,” the 12-time Grammy winner said in the caption of her post, shared March 9 in honor of International World Kidney Day.