Local doctors have successfully transplanted seven organs to a 7-year-old girl last fall, Asan Medical Center revealed Thursday. It is the first simultaneous transplant in Korea involving that many organs, and the sign of a new era of treatments for hard-to-cure disease, the medics said. According to the hospital, Dr. Kim Do-yeon and his team in October transplanted liver, pancreas, small intes...

A newborn became one of the smallest-ever recipients of a pacemaker, undergoing the procedure just 15 minutes after being born. Doctors at Stanford University's Lucile Packard Children's Hospital determined that Jaya Maharaj, born nine weeks premature, had only hours to live if they did not operate. Stanford announced details of the operation this week. Jaya was born with a heart rate of 45 be...

MELROSE PARK, Ill. (UPI) -- Two-thirds of Americans say they are on a diet to improve their health but relatively few are actually decreasing in size, a U.S. expert says. Dr. Jessica Bartfield, who specializes in nutrition and weight management at Loyola University Health System's Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, said dieting is a skill, much like playing a musical instrument, and requires practice a...

Love appears to use the same system in the brain that is activated when a person is addicted to drugs, recent research found. In the study, researchers at Stanford University showed 10 women and seven men photographs of loved ones. The researchers scanned and observed the participants’ brains with a functional magnetic resonance imaging machine. The scans showed that feelings of love acted as a...

Aspirin and other household drugs may inhibit the spread of cancer because they help shut down the chemical "highways" which feed tumours, Australian researchers said Tuesday. Scientists at Melbourne's Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre said they have made a biological breakthrough helping explain how lymphatic vessels -- key to the transmission of tumours throughout the body -- respond to cancer. "...

Philips Healthcare said Thursday that it has started the sales of an affordable version of its automated external defibrillator online early this month. AEDs are portable devices that monitor heart rhythm and send an electric shock to restore a normal rhythm in emergencies such as sudden cardiac arrest. The Philips Heart Start HS1 weighs about 1 kilogram but takes only 8.4 seconds from analysis...

GlaxoSmithKline said Monday it will release its Rotavirus vaccine, Rotarix, in a prefilled form as it acquired the Korea Food and Drug Administration approval. Rotarix is a viral vaccine containing live, attenuated human rotavirus that helps to protect children, starting from the age of 6 weeks, from gastro-enteritis (diarrhea and vomiting) caused by rotavirus infection. According to Diagnosia....

The Obama administration‘s decision requiring church-affiliated employers to cover birth control was bound to cause an uproar among Roman Catholics and members of other faiths, no matter their beliefs on contraception. The regulation, finalized a week ago, raises a complex and sensitive legal question: Which institutions qualify as religious and can be exempt from the mandate? For a church, mos...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- An outbreak of bacterial infections on the East Coast illustrates the popularity of raw, unpasteurized milk despite strong warnings from public health officials about the potential danger. Even presidential candidate Ron Paul has joined the cause of consumers looking to buy unprocessed “real foods” straight from the farm, saying government shouldn’t deny them that choice. An ...