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Sonia Sein with her surgeons and ICU team at The Mount Sinai Hospital.

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Woman Gets New Windpipe In Groundbreaking Transplant Surgery

A medical team in New York City says it has performed the first complete surgical transplant of a trachea. These kinds of transplants are one of the last big transplant challenges.

April 06, 2021
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  • Richard Harris
A study of mice that hear imaginary sounds could help explain human disorders like schizophrenia, which produce hallucinations.

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  • Science

Mice That Hear Imaginary Sounds May Help Explain Hallucinations In People

An experiment that induced imaginary sounds in both people and mice could help explain how brain disorders like schizophrenia cause hallucinations.

April 01, 2021
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  • Jon Hamilton
Jun Wu's team at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas have created hollow balls of cells that closely resemble embryos at the stage when they usually implant in the womb — known as blastocysts. The new laboratory-made embryo-like entities have been dubbed "blastoids."

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  • Health

Scientists Create Living Entities In The Lab That Closely Resemble Human Embryos

These structures made from living human cells are similar to human embryos at the stage when they implant in the womb. They allow scientists to research new ways to treat infertility.

March 17, 2021
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  • Rob Stein

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  • Health

Sharp, 'Off The Charts' Rise In Alcoholic Liver Disease Among Young Women

Some doctors are seeing a disturbing spike in lethal alcoholic liver disease, especially among young women. The recent trend has been supercharged, they say, by the pandemic's isolation and pressures.

March 16, 2021
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  • Yuki Noguchi

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  • Health

Many Hospitals Are Still Overwhelmed By COVID-19 Patients. Is Yours?

COVID-19 hospitalizations continue to strain U.S. hospitals. NPR built a tool to explore trends around the country. Look up your local hospital to see how it's faring.

March 15, 2021
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  • Sean McMinn,
  • Audrey Carlsen,
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Early on in the COVID-19 pandemic antibiotics were frequently prescribed to seriously ill patients, even though the disease is caused by a virus.

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  • Health

Antibiotic Use Ran High In Early Days Of COVID-19, Despite Viral Cause

Many doctors have used antibiotics to treat COVID-19 patients, but that's largely unnecessary — and could even promote drug-resistant germs.

March 10, 2021
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  • Richard Harris
Melissa Cruz elevates her arm after donating COVID-19 convalescent plasma in April 2020 as phlebotomist Jenee Wilson shuts down the collection equipment at Bloodworks Northwest in Seattle.

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  • Health

Convalescent Plasma Strikes Out As COVID-19 Treatment

Infusing blood plasma from people who have recovered from COVID-19 into sick patients looks good on paper. But studies of the treatment haven't found benefits.

March 10, 2021
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  • Richard Harris
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu learned of a way to stop smallpox from women in the Ottoman Empire in the early 18th century. Trying to persuade her country to do the same proved tricky.

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  • Science

A 300-Year-Old Tale Of One Woman's Quest To Stop A Deadly Virus

In 1721, London was in the grips of a deadly smallpox epidemic. One woman learned how to stop it, but her solution sowed political division.

March 08, 2021
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  • Geoff Brumfiel
Two health care workers prepare syringes with AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine in London Monday. A U.K. study will expose volunteers to the coronavirus and could help development of future vaccines.

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  • Health

Why Scientists Are Infecting Healthy Volunteers With The Coronavirus

Exposing people to a potentially fatal disease could hasten understanding of COVID-19 and development of new vaccines and treatments. But the risks of such studies raise serious ethical questions.

March 08, 2021
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  • Joe Palca
Biochemist Jennifer Doudna, the subject of Walter Isaacson's new biography <em>The Code Breaker, </em>shared a Nobel prize in chemistry in 2020 for the part she played in developing the CRISPR gene editing technology.

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  • Health

CRISPR Scientist's Biography Explores Ethics Of Rewriting The Code Of Life

The Code Breaker profiles Jennifer Doudna, a Nobel Prize-winning biochemist key to the development of CRISPR, and examines the technology's exciting possibilities and need for oversight.

March 08, 2021
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  • Terry Gross
A medical worker at South Shore University Hospital gets ready to administer the newly available Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine in Bay Shore, N.Y., Wednesday. Clinical research found it to be 85% effective in preventing severe disease four weeks after vaccination, and it has demonstrated promising indications of protection against a couple of concerning variants of the coronavirus.

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Got Questions About Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 Vaccine? We Have Answers

The third COVID-19 vaccine authorized for use in the U.S. requires one shot instead of two, and works a slightly different way from the others. Here's what we know about its safety and effectiveness.

March 05, 2021
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  • Maria Godoy
As a researcher at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, Alice Mukora says she understands the need to enroll diverse populations in Alzheimer's research. But that would be more likely to happen, she notes, if people of color had better experiences getting Alzheimer's care.

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  • Health Care

'Providers Don't Even Listen': Barriers To Alzheimer's Care When You're Not White

Nonwhite Americans looking for care for a loved one are much more likely than whites to encounter discrimination, language barriers, and providers who lack cultural competence, a new report finds.

March 02, 2021
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  • Jon Hamilton
Vaccine makers are moving to test booster shots, prompted by new coronavirus variants that have sprung up in South Africa, the U.K. and elsewhere.

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  • Health

COVID-19 Vaccine Makers' Booster Shots Aim At A Moving Target: Coronavirus Variants

In the future, different circumstances will likely determine which vaccine or booster a person receives, based on their antibodies — and which variant is common in their region.

February 25, 2021
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  • Bill Chappell
Sepsis, which is sometimes called blood poisoning, is essentially the body's overreaction to an infection.

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  • Health

Vitamin C Fails Again As Treatment For Sepsis

Sepsis is one of the most common causes of death for hospitalized patients. The search for an effective treatment has been frustrating.

February 24, 2021
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  • Richard Harris
Leyda Valentine, a research coordinator, takes blood from Lisa Taylor as she participates in a COVID-19 vaccination study at Research Centers of America in Hollywood, Fla., in August 2020.

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  • Health

Long-Term Studies Of COVID-19 Vaccines Hurt By Placebo Recipients Getting Immunized

Researchers are trying to learn more about COVID-19 vaccines from original study participants. The quest is hampered because many people who first received a placebo shot are opting for the vaccine.

February 19, 2021
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  • Richard Harris
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