Breast cancer survivor says her 120-pound weight loss helped save her life: ‘Strong, confident and healthy’

Tamara Loving, a mother of two from Huntington Beach, California, believes her dramatic weight loss helped her beat breast cancer. In 2016, when she was 37, Loving embarked on a weight loss journey. After joining WeightWatchers and spending eight months of meal-prepping, healthy eating and exercising, she lost 120 pounds — down to 150 from […]

Dementia’s crippling costs, update on pig heart transplant, and when snoring becomes dangerous

LIFE-SAVING EXPERIMENT – Surgeons give an update on a patient with end-stage cardiac disease a month after he received a genetically modified pig heart. Continue reading… BREAST CANCER BREAKTHROUGH – Experts claim artificial intelligence could predict a woman’s risk years before a diagnosis is given. Continue reading… NOT-SO-SWEET DREAMS – When does snoring go from a common annoyance […]

Breast cancer breakthrough: AI predicts a third of cases prior to diagnosis in mammography study

Artificial intelligence could have the capability to pinpoint cancer diagnoses a lot sooner. A new study published in the journal Radiology last week noted that AI helped predict one-third of breast cancer cases up to two years prior to diagnosis. The research surveyed imaging data and screening information from BreastScreen Norway exams performed from January […]

Surgeons give update on patient a month after experimental pig heart transplant: ‘Now I have hope’

One month after a Maryland man received an experimental pig heart transplant, the patient is doing well and shows no sign of infection or rejection of the organ, doctors say. “We are withdrawing all the drugs that were initially supporting his heart,” Muhammad Mohiuddin, M.D., professor of surgery and co-director of the cardiac xenotransplantation program […]