BOSTON – For the first time ever, surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston transplanted a pig kidney into a living human patient. Mass General said Thursday the procedure was the first successful procedure of its kind in the world. The kidney recipient was identified as 62-year-old Rick Slayman of Weymouth. He is recovering well at Mass General and the …

London —As authorities clamp down on fentanyl distribution and the amount of heroin produced in Afghanistan decreases under the Taliban, criminal enterprises have turned to a deadly alternative. Some health agencies in Europe are reporting a rise in deaths and overdoses from a type of synthetic opioid that can reportedly be hundreds of times stronger than heroin and up to …

CHICAGO (CBS) —Three years after former Gov. Rod Blagojevich filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn the ban on him ever running for state or local office again, a federal judge issued a blistering ruling on Thursday, quoting Dr. Seuss in telling Blagojevich to “go away.” “Read generally Dr. Seuss, Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now! (1972) (‘The time …