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Former news anchor Amy McGorry makes urgent appeal for a lifesaving liver donor.

Former news anchor Amy McGorry makes urgent appeal for a lifesaving liver donor.

Former Long Island news anchor Amy McGorry is now urgently seeking a liver donor to save her life. At 56, she has been a well-known local reporter for News 12 and TV55 while secretly battling two rare diseases—autoimmune hepatitis and primary biliary cholangitis—that have been gradually damaging her liver for around 20 years. Doctors are […]

The gap in Medicare device coverage is holding up life-saving care for older adults.

The gap in Medicare device coverage is holding up life-saving care for older adults.

It’s a bit of an extreme analogy, but some patients feel as though they’re dying of thirst, staring at water just out of reach. That feeling is particularly intense for those over 65 who rely heavily on advanced medical devices for their health, a situation compounded by current reimbursement policies from the Centers for Medicare […]

Pastor from Tennessee abducted in South Africa remembers life-saving ‘miracle’

Tennessee Pastor’s Harrowing Experience in South Africa A Tennessee pastor, Joshua Sullivan, was forcibly taken from his church in South Africa just before Easter and shared his story about that frightening ordeal and the unexpected miracle that saved his life. The 34-year-old pastor, who serves at Fellowship Baptist Church, was kidnapped by masked gunmen who […]

NIH funding cuts imperil lifesaving drugs and US prosperity 

In 1972, testicular cancer was the leading murderer of young men and was almost uniformly fatal. Today, the survival rate is 90%. The drug that causes this miraculous reversal, Cisplatinit would not have been discovered without “indirect funding” from the National Institutes of Health – resources used for all the critical services needed to support […]