A 36-year-old husband and father of two children with an inoperable tumor in his trachea (windpipe) has received the world's first artificial trachea made with stem cells. A report published online in The Lancet described the transplant surgery, which was...
Full-face transplants were once the stuff of science fiction, but not anymore. So far, 18 such transplants have been done worldwide, and...
Research published in The New England Journal of Medicine reported a long-awaited breakthrough in the fight against cancer. Through the use of...
Patients over the age of 65 who have severe coronary artery disease fare better with bypass surgery than with minimally invasive angioplasty,...
With more than 25 million Americans living with some form of uncorrectable vision impairment today, more and more high-tech devices for low-vision...
For people with hearing loss, weak vision or arthritis, using a standard telephone can be challenging. Fortunately, there are phones on the...
The Lyric hearing aid is professionally inserted deep into the ear canal. It is placed four millimeters from the eardrum and is...
For most people, age-related hearing loss, also known as presbycusis, happens so slowly that they don't notice it at first....
Each year, about one in every three people over age 65 suffers a fall, a mishap that is far more dangerous than...
Empathy is especially important when interacting with people who have Alzheimer's disease. Example: If an Alzheimer's patient starts...
Alzheimer's disease is a frightening diagnosis—one that we all hope never to face. Unfortunately, there are many myths about...
Learning a second language is one of the best ways to achieve the type of mental stimulation that many experts believe can...