A 64-year-old man in Canada who was left disfigured after a hunting accident has become the oldest person in the world to receive a face transplant, his doctors report. Four months after the surgery, performed at Hospital Maisonneuve-Rosemont in … Discuss
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Love Not Lost: Two Childhood Cancer Survivors Marry at St. Jude
Lindsey Wilkerson was given a tour when she first began working in the event and patient-liaison department at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis more than 14 years ago. As she made her initial rounds through the pediatric treatment and … Discuss
Creamy Beef and Shells
A quick/easy ground beef recipe, this is a pasta dish that will be on your dinner table all week long! So creamy and so comforting! I cannot even begin to tell you how much of this pasta I ate on probably 13 different occasions. Well, first, I should tell you that no plating of...
Kidney stones form like any rock, may hold day-by-day history of your body’s health
Kidney stones are actual stones, in the geologic sense of the word, new research reveals. The combined efforts of an interdisciplinary team — which included a geologist, a microscopist, and a medical doctor — revealed a surprising trait of kidney … Discuss
This broken gene may have turned our ancestors into marathoners—and helped humans conquer the world
Despite our couch potato lifestyles, long-distance running is in our genes. A new study in mice pinpoints how a stretch of DNA likely turned our ancestors into marathoners, giving us the endurance to conquer territory, evade predators, and eventually … Discuss