For decades, the list of standard treatments for many blood cancers has remained short and largely unchanged. But now there is a new entry on the list. If chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant fail to stop the cancer, doctors can harness a type of personalized immunotherapy that trains a person’s own immune system to attack cancer cells.

In December 1954, physicians in Boston did something revolutionary. They transplanted a kidney into a 23-year-old patient: the first successful organ transplant in history. Now, 64 years later, organ transplants save tens of thousands of lives each year. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) reports that U.S. transplant teams performed more than 19,000 kidney transplants in 2016 alone.

Suicide is one of the top 10 causes of death in the united states and is the 10th leading cause of death in missouri. Among Missourians ages 10-24, suicide is the second leading cause of death. On average, one person in the state dies by suicide every eight hours.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine are studying the use of nitrous oxide, also called laughing gas, as a treatment for people who are hospitalized due to suicidal thoughts. They are investigating using the gas as a possible treatment to speed up recovery and reduce risk of suicide.

It’s 1981, and a woman, seven months pregnant with twins, knows that one of her unborn babies will probably die. He has a blocked urinary tract, a life-threatening condition.

But he doesn’t die. Instead, something unprecedented happens. A doctor in San Francisco opens the woman’s abdomen and performs the first successful fetal surgery. The baby is born, leads a normal childhood and grows up.

Millions of americans take prescription drugs called PPIs, or proton pump inhibitors, to treat heartburn, ulcers and other gastrointestinal problems. And many of these PPIs are widely available as over-the-counter drugs under brand names that include Prevacid, Prilosec, Nexium and Protonix. While ppis are effective at reducing stomach acid, they have also been linked to health problems, including low magnesium levels, bone fractures and the gut infection C. Difficile.