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Sapporo University Professor Juro Wada examines Nobuo Miyazaki after Japan's first heart transplant operation at the Sapporo University Hospital on August 9

The gift of life: A visual history of organ transplantation

CNN By Jen Christensen, Amanda Sealy, Nadia Kounang, CNN There were more than 48,000 organ transplants in the United States last year. They’re commonplace now, but the practice was considered experimental only a half-century ago. Until just the past few years, transplants almost always involved human organs. Now, early experiments in xenotransplantation — transplanting animal

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Ancient grains such as farro often contain significantly fewer heavy metals

Exclusive: Dangerously high levels of arsenic and cadmium found in store-bought rice, report finds

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — Samples of store-bought rice from more than 100 different brands purchased in the United States contained dangerously high levels of arsenic and cadmium, according to a new report released exclusively to CNN. “Even at low levels, both arsenic and cadmium have been linked to serious health harms, including diabetes,

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First on CNN: Trump administration cut $2.7 billion in NIH research funding through March, Senate committee minority report says

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — A Senate committee report by minority staff, and obtained by CNN, slams the Trump administration for terminating some funding for research, firing thousands of federal workers and removing certain scientific data from government websites. The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee’s minority staff report, scheduled to be released

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A social prescription could be as simple as meeting up with a friend in the local park each week to connect in real life.

Your new prescription? It’s not medicine

By Jessica DuLong, CNN (CNN) — Fewer nights out with friends, more take-out meals, less theatergoing. Americans are spending more time alone than ever before. Whether this trend results from an epidemic of loneliness, which leaves people wanting for company, or a century of solitude, in which individuals prioritize solo time, the fact remains that

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Measles outbreak in North Dakota prompts local health officials to quarantine unvaccinated schoolchildren

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — Measles cases continue to accumulate in the United States in what is already the second-worst year since the disease was declared eliminated a quarter-century ago. Now, a recent outbreak in one North Dakota county has led local health officials to quarantine nearly 200 unvaccinated students. North Dakota has reported

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Frozen biobank samples collected from women over decades for the Nurses’ Health Study are in danger of being lost due to Trump funding cuts.

Exclusive: Generations of Americans gave biological samples that may soon be lost due to Trump funding cuts

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN) — A priceless treasure trove of biodata gathered from generations of Americans by Harvard University researchers may soon be lost due to additional funding cuts by the Trump administration, a leading nutrition researcher told CNN. The latest round of cuts to Harvard by the Trump administration will halt funding for

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Dr. Casey Means is a holistic medicine doctor whose prominence rose with the Make America Healthy Again movement and its ties to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign.

White House withdraws another key nomination with last-minute pivot for US surgeon general

By Kaitlan Collins, Sarah Owermohle and Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — The White House announced Wednesday that President Donald Trump is pulling Dr. Janette Nesheiwat’s nomination to be surgeon general and replacing her with Dr. Casey Means. The news came the day before Nesheiwat’s Senate confirmation hearing was set to begin. “Casey has impeccable ‘MAHA’

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