From Dr. Sanjay Gupta: When I met Tim Andrews earlier this year, he showed me something I never imagined I would see: a pig kidney functioning inside a human. He is a true medical pioneer — one of the few living people in the world to have undergone a pig organ transplant. A team of […]
From Dr. Sanjay Gupta: The animal world is always so fascinating: how similar they are to humans and what we can learn from them. An interesting study this week found that, like us, octopuses also have dominant arms and favor them for specific tasks. Handedness in humans is dependent on many factors. Environment is […]
From Dr. Sanjay Gupta: Whether it’s a brain tumor, a herniated disc or a pinched nerve, pain is often what first brings most of my patients to the hospital. Pain can be difficult to treat, in part because it has no objective measure. It’s a challenge for doctors, and as a profession, we’ve often utilized […]
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From Dr. Sanjay Gupta: There are currently more than 7 million people living with Alzheimer’s in the US and without any major development that can prevent or cure the disease, that number is projected to grow to more than 12 million by 2050. But this week, a study published in the journal Nature hints at […]
Originally published in the CNN Health newsletter, ‘The Results Are In’, from WWSG thought leader, Dr. Sanjay Gupta. My mom recently fell. It wasn’t a dramatic fall down the stairs or anything like that; she was pushing a suitcase and fell backward, into a sitting position. But she’s in her 80s, with more osteoporotic bone, […]
From WWSG thought leader, Dr. Sanjay Gupta: Cuts to the federal work force have been in the headlines recently, including thousands of jobs lost this week among the staff at the National Institutes of Health, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the US Food and Drug Administration. The economic uncertainty of job loss […]
You may not think about gravity a lot, but it’s something that the human body is designed to handle. It’s what allows us to build muscle and maintain bone density, and it even helps with our motor control. It also allows us to sleep under cozy covers, take a shower or go for a run. So […]
From WWSG exclusive speaker, Dr. Sanjay Gupta: I have always thought of boredom as an emotion — a painful one I think most of us actively try to avoid. And now, thanks to smart phones and social media, there’s an easy distraction at our fingertips. But if you’re trying to turn away more from distractions […]
From WWSG exclusive speaker, Dr. Sanjay Gupta: Recently, I had a chance to catch up with Dr. Francis Collins, on my podcast, Chasing Life. Dr. Collins was my genetics professor at the University of Michigan Medical School three decades ago. He is also one of the world’s preeminent geneticists, former director of the National Institutes […]