HEART FAILURE. RECTAL cancer. Brain bleeds. Each of the people in this package of stories might not be alive today without a key medical innovation that took many years, millions of dollars, and countless setbacks and breakthroughs to get quite right. Who are the next people to be saved? Survivors Stories 1. I Survived a …
This story is part of a series on 10 life-saving medical breakthroughs. Click here to read the rest. DANIEL TUKEY, 39, was fly-fishing about a mile off Cape Cod about three years ago when his phone rang. It was Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City calling with news he’d been waiting for. …
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This story is part of a series on 10 life-saving medical breakthroughs. Click here to read the rest. OSCAR LARRAINZAR, A 42-year-old from West Covina, California, thought he just needed surgery to repair his broken nose. His presurgery blood work revealed another problem—impaired kidney function, which quickly led to kidney failure. To complicate matters further, …
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This story is part of a series on 10 life-saving medical breakthroughs. Click here to read the rest. GREG MORRISON, 63, spent decades working as a systems engineer. Now, his own head is a feat of engineering. Nearly half his skull is 3D-printed. Just over two years ago, Morrison developed an unusual headache. “I felt …
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This story is part of a series on 10 life-saving medical breakthroughs. Click here to read the rest. AJAY RANDHAWA, A 39-year-old from Sacramento, California, worked as a respiratory therapist for almost a decade. He nearly made it through 2020 without catching COVID-19 from the infected patients at his hospital. “I was the last one …
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MY EARS DO a solid job rejecting nearly every earbud I try. I’ve chased after too many rogue AirPods that fly out mid-run to stick with those, and I haven’t done much better with other standard earbud styles. But the Powerbeats Fit offers a different style that works for chronic earbud rejectors like me. Compared …
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YOU’VE PROBABLY HEARD egg whites are the healthiest way to eat eggs. Yet there is an argument to be made about eating the whole egg. And yes, we’re talking about the yolk. Inside the yellow core of a sunny side up egg lies a treasure trove of nutrients. One of those nutrients in yolk, choline, …
IF THERE’S ONE thing I like to do in the month of December, it’s watch movies. Granted, “watching movies” is more or less my favorite thing to do at any point in any given year. But in December, the energy shifts. We’ve got new releases gunning for Oscars glory. We’ve got a few major blockbusters …
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How long it takes alcohol to clear your system, as well as how it can affect you physically, varies from person to person. Generally, it takes about five half-lives to process and eliminate alcohol from your body completely. Alcohol has a half-life of four to five hours, which means it takes about 20 to 25 …
STERLING K. BROWN felt like Kobe. The award-winning actor wasn’t exactly winning NBA championships, though. No, he thought of the late basketball star after recently tearing his Achilles tendon, as Bryant did in 2013. But like Kobe, Brown is not going to let his injury take him out of playing his favorite game. Brown sat …