In an effort to save an endangered bonobo’s life, Wisconsin doctors would buck the odds and perform a rarely successful brain surgery.
Author: Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Wisconsin researchers link chimpanzee-killing disease to new species of bacterium. They worry now that it will jump to humans.
Although the chimpanzee illness has yet to be found in a human being, the two species share about 99% of their hereditary material, or DNA.
Tests of potential coronavirus vaccine spur growth of virus-fighting antibodies
Vaccines often take years to receive approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Coronavirus researchers seek a fast track.
Home for Christmas: In 1988, a surgeon sewed a new heart into a cowboy. Nearly 31 years later, he did it again.
Chuck Newman took good care of his transplanted heart, but after 31 years, it wore out. He turned to a familiar surgeon — and his son — to save him.
Turned down for federal disability payments, thousands die waiting for appeals to be heard
In fiscal year 2017, 10,002 Americans stuck on the appeals backlog for Social Security Disability Insurance died waiting for a response.