Month: March 2022

Most of your internal organs are comfortably well protected from the outside world. But the gastrointestinal tract—or more precisely, the inside of the gastrointestinal tract—comes in contact with items from the outside world every day. The foods you eat enter the body via the mouth, travel to the stomach, where they’re partially digested, and move … Read more

The first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig has died, two months after the groundbreaking experiment, the Maryland hospital that performed the surgery announced Wednesday. David Bennett, 57, died Tuesday at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Doctors didn’t give an exact cause of death, saying only that his condition had begun … Read more

Moderna, the Massachusetts-based company behind one of the two mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, made the decision in 2020 not to enforce the patent on its shot. The move was meant to encourage low- and middle-income countries that couldn’t afford to purchase billions of doses of the vaccine (as the U.S., Canada, and many European countries had … Read more

Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo sparked controversy this week by recommending against COVID-19 vaccination for healthy children—contrary to the advice of health organizations and plenty of data that suggest the shots are safe and effective. Florida “is going to be the first state to officially recommend against the COVID-19 vaccines for healthy children,” Ladapo … Read more

In the fog of the war in Ukraine, it’s easy to forget about a smaller, but still very poignant tragedy that occurred months before the fighting began, back on Oct. 6, 2021. That day, a 17-month-old girl in the Rivne region in the west portion of the country was stricken with paralytic polio—19 years after … Read more

Nearly two-thirds of Americans want to stop shifting their clocks twice a year, according to polls. View original article Contributor: Dan Diamond

David Bennett Sr., the first person in the world to receive a genetically modified pig’s heart, died Tuesday, according to officials at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Bennett underwent the groundbreaking transplant Jan 7. View original article Contributor: Frances Stead Sellers

The $15.6 billion emergency aid package was stripped amid disputes over how to pay for it, injecting uncertainty into the president’s pandemic response plan. View original article Contributor: Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Madeleine Ngo

Partly paralyzed as a college football player, he had a role in the inception of the Americans With Disability Act and raised money for spinal cord research. View original article Contributor: Richard Sandomir