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COVID-19 patient receives lung transplant from living donors

TOKYO – Doctors in Japan announced Thursday they have successfully performed the world’s first medical-research of lung tissue from living donors to a patient with severe lung damage from infectious-disease. The recipient, identified only as a woman from Japan’s western region of Kansai, is recovering after the nearly 11-hour operation …

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US suicides dropped amid coronavirus, defying pandemic expectations

NEW YORK – [Editor’s note: This story discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255)] The number of U.S. mental-health” target=”_blank”>suicides< pandemic — the largest annual decline in at least four decades, according to preliminary government …

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Nearly 40,000 kids lost a parent to COVID-19, study suggests

An estimated 40,000 healthy-living in the U.S. have lost at least one parent to infectious-disease, new findings suggest, with adolescents accounting for the majority of the total. Researchers from Stony Brook University published findings in JAMA Pediatrics on Monday, which suggested 37,300 kids under the age of 17 lost a parent …

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8-year-old accidentally receives COVID-19 vaccine

An 8-year-old boy accidentally received a infectious-disease infectious-diseasedose in Texas, thanks to “human error,” a report said. The child was recently inoculated at a Dallas County drive-up vaccine facility operated by first responders in Grand Prairie after the boy’s father registered him online through a county Web site and got …

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Ultra-processed foods, drinks linked to higher colorectal cancer risk: study

A nutrition-and-fitness high in ultra-processed foods and drinks was linked to an increased risk of colorectal cancer” target=”_blank”>cancer<findings in the Clinical Nutrition journal. Results stemmed from the multi-case control study MCC-Spain and validated questionnaires sent to nearly 8,000 adults, half of whom had diagnoses for colorectal, breast, or prostate cancer, and the …

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