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A.I. Is Helping Find New Purposes for Old Drugs

By: Kate Morgan —
Scientists are using machine learning to find new treatments among thousands of old medicines.

Joseph Coates assumed he was going to die as a result of a rare blood disorder. But his girlfriend decided to contact a doctor in Philadelphia who was using A.I. to find new uses for old drugs.

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For Patients Needing Transplants, Hope Arrives on Tiny Hooves

By: Roni Caryn Rabin —
Some scientists are confident that organs from genetically modified pigs will one day be routinely transplanted into humans. But substantial ethical questions remain.

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Dialysis May Prolong Life for Older Patients. But Not by Much.

By: Paula Span —
In one recent study, the challenging regimen added 77 days of life after three years. Often, kidney disease can be managed in other ways.

Dialysis can cause side effects like infections, fatigue and itching, and often means hours each week in health care centers, where most older adults don’t want to be.

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