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An 11-year-old Ohio girl delivered the phone call of a lifetime, as she told her dad she was finally getting the heart transplant she'd been waiting for.
Ava Cooper, who was born in 2014 with several heart defects, underwent her first open-heart surgery at just six days old, SWNS reported.
Despite these treatments, her health took a turn in May 2024 when a sinus infection spiraled into heart failure.
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Doctors placed Cooper on the transplant list for a new heart, which seemed to be her only chance of survival, per SWNS.
«Heart transplants are recommended for children who have serious heart problems,» as stated by Johns Hopkins Medicine. «These children won't be able to live unless their heart is replaced.»
Various health organizations report that the surgery is meant to replace a heart that can’t function as it should.
The healthy organ comes from a donor, typically an adult or child who i..

Scientists at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) may have discovered a cause of aging in the brain.
The culprit is a protein called ferritin light chain 1 (FTL1), described as an iron-associated protein identified as a «pro-aging neuronal factor that impairs cognition.»
The study, published in the journal Nature Aging, compared how genes and proteins in the hippocampus – the region of the brain responsible for learning and memory – changed over time in old and young mice.
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Aged mice had a higher amount of FTL1, as well as fewer brain cell connections in the hippocampus and diminished cognitive abilities, according to a UCSF press release.
When FTL1 was artificially increased in young mice, their brains began to mimic the brains and behaviors of old mice.
When the protein was decreased in the old mice, they «regained their youth,» had more nerve cell connections and performed better on memory tests…

The summer heat can be tough on anyone’s body and mind — but the stakes are higher for seniors.
Extreme heat may speed up «biological aging» in older individuals, raising concerns about its impact on long-term health, according to a recent study published in the journal Science Advances.
Macie P. Smith, a licensed social worker and gerontologist based in South Carolina, weighed in on the relationship between heat and aging in an interview with Fox News Digital. (See the video at the top of this article.)
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Seniors run the risk of becoming dehydrated — which, when coupled with extreme heat, can be a «recipe for disaster,» including events such as heatstroke, she said.
«Dehydration is one of the most common reasons our seniors are hospitalized,» Smith added.
Often, seniors don't drink enough water because they want to avoid frequent urination, Smith suggested, and the sense of thirst also fades with age.
«Simply..

Kansas health officials say they are monitoring six West Nile virus cases this year and five of them have been considered serious.
As of Aug. 15, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) shows three cases located in the north-central Kansas region and three more in the south-central part of the state.
The KDHE says that five of the six cases are classified as neuroinvasive. Jill Bronaugh, a KDHE spokesperson, said non-neuroinvasive cases are less severe, according to a report by KSNT.
Bronaugh explained that infected subjects with non-neuroinvasive cases have flu-like symptoms and neuroinvasive cases are much more severe.
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«Neuroinvasive cases are those in which there is clinical evidence of involvement of the central nervous system in the disease process,» Bronaugh said. «These cases are generally more severe and include symptoms such as high fever, inflammation of the brain and/or the tissue surro..

A California resident has tested positive for the plague after likely being bitten by an infected flea on a Lake Tahoe camping trip, health officials confirmed.
The El Dorado County Health and Human Services Agency said Tuesday the individual is recovering at home under medical supervision.
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) notified local officials of the case, prompting an investigation.
«It’s believed that the person may have been bitten by an infected flea while camping in the South Lake Tahoe area. Health officials are investigating the situation,» the county said in a news release.
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Plague bacteria are most commonly spread by fleas that have fed on infected squirrels, chipmunks or other wild rodents.
From 2021 through 2024, El Dorado County identified 41 rodents showing evidence of plague exposure. In 2025 so far, four more plague-positive rodents have been found in the Tah..

The benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) in the medical space are ever-growing, but evidence suggests it can also come with risks.
A new study by European researchers investigated how AI can change the behavior of endoscopists when conducting a colonoscopy, and how their performance dips when not using AI.
The research followed clinicians at four endoscopy centers in Poland participating in the ACCEPT (Artificial Intelligence in Colonoscopy for Cancer Prevention) trial, where AI tools for polyp detection were introduced at the end of 2021.
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Colonoscopies at these centers were randomly selected to be administered with or without AI assistance.
The researchers gauged the quality of the colonoscopies by comparing the identification of tumors (also known as the adenoma detection rate, or ADR) three months before and three months after implementing the AI.
From September 2021 to March 2022, 1,443 patients underwent non-AI-assisted ..