Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have discovered sex-specific differences in how fat accumulates in muscle and ...

AFTER gorging on turkey and pigs in blankets, now is the time to bring out the cheeseboard. However, even a small cube can add hundreds of calories to your festive total. Dietitian Emma Shafqat, ...

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Ham, meanwhile, says Shore is the cured upper back leg of a pig. Shore points out that ham usually has a sweeter cure, and ...

Weight loss refers to a decrease in your overall body weight from muscle, water, and fat loss. Fat loss refers to weight loss from fat only, and it’s a more specific and healthy goal than ...

Most air passengers rarely think about what’s stored in the cargo hold below, but passengers on a recent KLM Royal Dutch Airlines flight were in for a surprise when the stench from live pigs ...

Pigs pose a particular risk of incubating new viruses, but cats, too, pose a similar risk because of their proximity to humans, as per a new study. Now, scientists are warning that domestic cats ...

Is it a skincare hack or hack skincare? Tallow — rendered bovine fat — is hailed as a holy grail moisturizer and cure-all for any condition plaguing the skin. Dermatologists, however ...

Towana Looney is the only person in the world living with a functional pig kidney. But her doctor predicts that in less than a decade, pig-to-human organ transplants like hers could become routine.

When pigs fly, it gets really smelly. A flight headed to Mexico went a little “hog wild” when the pilot decided to make an unplanned landing due to an “obnoxious smell” coming from the ...

Experts have long regarded pigs as one of the greatest zoonotic threats to public health because their cells allow viruses to mix and mutate, creating new strains capable of causing human pandemics.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Towana Looney is the fifth American given a gene-edited pig organ, after eight years on dialysis ...