A New Jersey woman who was near death has received a transplanted pig kidney, part of a dramatic pair of surgeries that also stabilized her failing heart. Doctors at NYU Langone Health say 54-year-old Lisa Pisano is recovering well. She is only the second patient ever to receive a pig kidney. The first, a man transplanted last month in Boston, also is faring well. Pisano was far sicker, suffering a combination of heart and kidney failure. It's the latest in a string of attempts to make...
A month ago, Richard Slayman became the first living person to receive a kidney transplant from a gene-edited pig. Now, a team of researchers from NYU Langone Health reports that Lisa Pisano, a 54-year-old woman from New Jersey, has become the second. Her new kidney has just a single genetic modification—an approach that researchers hope…
A New Jersey woman is alive and improving after undergoing experimental transplant surgery involving a kidney from a genetically modified pig.Earlier this month, Lisa Pisano — a 54-year-old grandmother from Cookstown, New Jersey, about 20 miles southeast of Trenton — was practically on death's doorstep. She was in desperate need of a kidney transplant, but antibodies in her tissues made finding a match nearly impossible. She was also in heart failure, but because she was on dialysis, doctors...
Click to see the full unobscured images on Mail+. These are the first pictures of Oscar Pistorius since his release from jail for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
California's newest state park, located 80 miles east of San Francisco, has an opening date. After a decade of planning and $40 million in funding, Dos Rios State Park in the San Joaquin Valley will open to the public on June 12, Gov. Gavin Newsom and California State Parks announced Monday. The 1,600-acre property, nestled between the Tuolumne and San Joaquin rivers, around eight miles from Modesto, is the largest public-private floodplain restoration project in the state. It's also the first...
Apple Card was launched in 2019 in the US, and although using it with Apple Pay is the best solution, the company provides a physical card made of titanium so that holders can make purchases in stores that don’t accept contactless payments. Interestingly, the first Apple Cards issued are about to expire, and Apple is now shipping new ones to cardholders. more
The escalation process will enable patients and their families to request an urgent review by a different critical care team in the hospital and will be available 24/7. It can be used if a patient’s condition is rapidly worsening and they or their family feels they are not getting the care needed. The new process follows the death of 13-year-old Martha Mills in 2021, who developed sepsis under the care of King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in London. Martha’s family, who campaigned for...
By the time Breanna Van Watteghem turned five years old, her kidneys had already started to fail. It began with the cloudy urine her parents would find in the toilet whenever she forgot to flush. That was followed later by recurring urinary tract infections, then persistent lower back pain beginning at the age of 11. […]
Avraham Eisenberg was found guilty of obtaining $110 million by manipulating the price of cryptocurrency futures on Mango Markets, and a crypto token.
The new JLab JBuds Lux ANC headphones are on sale for $69.99 at Amazon, down from the normal price of $79.99. That's a 13% discount.
A Las Vegas man accused of killing his girlfriend’s 4-year-old son is due to appear in court on Tuesday. Brandon Toseland, 37, is getting a new defense lawyer, according to court documents.
The man who fatally shot retired NFL player Will Smith following a car crash is headed back to prison. 36-year-old Cardell Hayes was sentenced on Thursday in a New Orleans courtroom for his role in Will Smith’s 2016 shooting death, making it the second time he has faced sentencing for the killing after he was granted a …