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One in Ten Lung Transplants Go to Covid-19 Patients: Here’s What We Know

… like you see in the movies. Seeing all these people die, or eventually need a transplant, it's just: vaccination …

Last Modified: 10/24/2024 - 14:53

Diabetes and Weight Loss Surgery

… People suffering from diabetes are twice as likely to die prematurely than those who do not have it. Types of …

Last Modified: 11/03/2025 - 15:36

The Ryeom Lab: Q&A with Sandra Ryeom About Tumor Microenvironments

… expand them. They would grow the cells and they would just die. We couldn't figure out what you needed to put in the …

Last Modified: 02/23/2023 - 18:02

Durable Benefits Shown for Lung Volume Reduction Surgery for Emphysema

Last Modified: 12/09/2025 - 16:25

Atrial Tachycardia

… the patient will suffer brain and heart damage and can die. When VT occurs, there is no pulse and the person must …

Last Modified: 01/07/2026 - 14:27

Fighting for Their Lives

… nearly bleeding to death. The doctors said she could die. For hours her blood pressure was in the 40s and her …

Last Modified: 02/19/2023 - 13:08

Compassion in Action, Across the Miles

… every one of us can do. Burying those organs when we die is selfish and wasteful.” Emily’s example has since …

Last Modified: 02/19/2023 - 13:10

The Mounting Crisis in Women’s Heart Health

… in black women, and black women are 4 times more likely to die in childbirth in the U.S. than white women. The confusion …

Last Modified: 05/09/2024 - 12:13

An Interview with Dr. Craig Smith, Heart Surgeon, Chair of Surgery, and Author of Nobility in Small Things

… of me. They would do 10 operations and have eight of them die. Today one or two in a hundred might die. That risk-taking has also led you to experience some …

Last Modified: 11/07/2025 - 17:21

Rewarding Medicine: Can Hospital Rankings Work for You?

… 2018 and 2019 with the number who would be expected to die given the severity of illness. Hospitals were scored from …

Last Modified: 02/23/2023 - 18:02

“Alive with a New, Old Liver”

… surgery. The donated portion of liver will wither and die, leaving the child with a healthy liver and …

Last Modified: 02/23/2023 - 17:59

Dr. Robert S. Brown Speaks on Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

… people is a huge number and probably there are people who die from related issues, why is this something we haven’t …

Last Modified: 02/23/2023 - 17:59

History of Medicine: The Mysterious Appendix

… of Plastic Surgery ——— NOTE: The painting depicted is “Die Operation” (The Operation) by Gaspare Traversi in 1753. …

Last Modified: 02/23/2023 - 17:59

In Every Movement: A Musician’s Path Through Surgery and Survival

… the suddenness of it all. I really thought I was going to die that night.” She later learned that she still had a …

Last Modified: 11/14/2025 - 16:48

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