The haze over parts of Florida from wildfires may not look dangerous, but it can cause severe reactions in some people.

The man, who was in his 40s and suffering from severe heart failure, was also the first person to leave the hospital with a titanium heart. He is recovering well after getting a new, donor heart ...

The KidneyVault is more than a simple ice chest: The device is the company’s first to provide perfusion of donated tissue by pumping a cooled, specialized solution through the organ to help ...

"We still don't know exactly what makes labor start. We know all about the mechanics and physiology, but we don't know what ...

Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages, Dr. Jack Hartnell explores how societies at the time understood the human body, and ...

It is an extremely rare type of cojoined twin where a baby is born with an underdeveloped twin attached to its body. This ...

A major agency within the Department of Health and Human ... or chest surgery and more than 400 undergoing genital surgery, resulting in permanent changes to their reproductive organs, the memo ...

Surgeon Muhammad Mansoor Mohiuddin is a leader in the novel field of xenotransplantation—transferring organs from one species to another—in his case, from pigs to humans.

A mission to Mars would involve a six-to-nine-month journey to the Red Planet, surface explorations, and then a similar ...

The rib cage is also known as the thoracic cage, and the primary rib cage function is to protect the organs inside the chest ... The average human is born with the same number of ribs regardless ...