The first human to receive a heart transplant from a genetically-modified pig, David Bennett (57), has died two months after the surgery. The pig heart functioned normally for several weeks, and the University of Maryland Medical Center provided regular updates suggesting that Bennet was improving. Bennett’s body did not...
As the Omicron variant continues to spread across the United States, it’s highly likely that almost everybody will eventually be exposed to the strain, according to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert. "Omicron, with its extraordinary, unprecedented degree of efficiency of transmissibility, will ultimately find...
Doctors have successfully transplanted a genetically modified pig heart into a human for the first time in history. The University of Maryland Medical Center announced that that transplant was successful and that the 57-year-old patient, David Bennet, was doing well three days later. Bennet had terminal heart disease and had...
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Omicron has become the dominant COVID-19 variant in the US. First identified in South Africa on November 24th, the variant now accounts for 73% of all new cases reported this week compared to 12.6% just last week. CDC data...
> We want to make sure young people never start smoking, so we will make it an offence to sell or supply smoke tobacco products to new cohorts of young people. People aged 14 when the law comes into effect will never be able to legally purchase tobacco. - Dr. Ayesha...
The largest-yet clinical study into psilocybin (the hallucinogenic ingredient in magic mushrooms), found that the psychedelic drug is highly effective in reducing symptoms in people with treatment-resistant depression. In the 233-patient study conducted across North America and Europe, Compass Pathways found that patients who received the highest dose, 25mg dose...
