Dr. Joe Sirven explores the gift of organ donation and, separately, how living well with an autoimmune disease is possible.

A biotech company recently announced that it's implanted another pig kidney into a human recipient. Here's what to know.

While medical centers use ultrasound daily, so far this technology is not capable of observing body tissues at the scale of ...

While medical centers use ultrasound daily, so far this technology has not been capable of observing body tissues at the scale of cells. Physicists have now developed a microscopy technique based on ...

This marks the first human case ... of cases involving organ transplantation," a statement from UTMC reads, as reported by ...

With evidence pointing to serious kidney challenges, careful planning will be needed to keep crews healthy on space journeys ...

While brain cells do the heavy lifting in the nervous system, it's the glia that provide nutrients, clean up waste, and protect neurons from harm. Beijing insisted on Tuesday that it had shared ...

COVID infections can lead to long-term health effects in nearly every organ system in the body. (Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis) Well, what is it about the coronavirus that ...

What's more, according to their analysis of modern human DNA, one of these isolated populations left a stronger legacy in our genes than the other. "The question of where we come from is one that has ...

However, the human body evolved to function in the gravity ... Microgravity also distorts the vestibular system, which is how you balance and sense which way is up. In space, there is no up ...