A rare case of rabies linked to an organ transplant has resulted in two deaths, federal health officials announced.
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Two deaths linked to rabies-infected kidney transplant
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Larry Dean Trosin Obituary December 8, 2025
Larry Dean Trosin, a man whose laughter filled every room and whose humor lifted every heart, passed away peacefully after a courageous battle with bladder cancer at the age of 71. Born in Estherville, Iowa, on January…
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Results show long-lasting benefits of CAR T cell therapy for hard-to-treat lymphoma
New three-year follow-up results from the TRANSCEND FL trial show that patients with relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma can achieve durable, multi-year remission with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy, even after prior…
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CAR T cell therapy shows promising Phase II trial results in multiple myeloma
The chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy anitocabtagene autoleucel (anito-cel) continued to show strong results in treating relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma, according to new trial data from researchers at The University of Texas MD…
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New antibody boosts immune response against blood cancers and solid cancers
In a recent preclinical study, researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center developed an antibody therapy called 77A that showed an ability to overcome treatment resistance in blood cancers, such as myeloma and lymphoma, as…
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FDA approves Itvisma for spinal muscular atrophy
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Itvisma (onasemnogene abeparvovec-brve) for the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) in patients 2 years and older with confirmed mutation in the survival motor neuron 1 (SMN1) gene.
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Putting pig organs in people is OK in the US, but growing human organs in pigs is not. Why is that?
In a Maryland operating room one day in November 2025, doctors made medical history by transplanting a genetically modified pig kidney into a living patient. The kidney had been engineered to mimic human tissue and was grown in a pig, as an…
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Forget The Perfect AI Model
HHS has released an AI strategy outlining how the agency plans to use AI to improve efficiency, drive innovation, and strengthen national health outcomes. Healthcare CIOs share similar goals, and the HHS plan provides a practical model for…
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Gene therapy improves movement in kids with spinal muscular atrophy
A single-dose gene replacement therapy is found to improve movement ability in children over 2 years of age and teenagers with spinal muscular atrophy, according to research published in Nature Medicine. The results of this phase 3 clinical…
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Health insurance premiums rose nearly 3x the rate of worker earnings over the past 25 years
Health insurance premiums in the U.S. significantly increased between 1999 and 2024, outpacing the rate of worker earnings by three times, according to our newly published research in the journal JAMA Network Open.
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