Being struck by lightning subjects the human body to immense electrical energy, causing burns, organ damage, and violent ...

United Therapeutics Corporation uses strong cash flows to develop xenotransplanted organs and solve global supply shortages.

As previously reported, Egyptian embalming is thought to have begun in the Predynastic Period or earlier, when people noticed that the arid desert heat tended to dry and preserve bodies buried in the ...

Did you know there are 7 organs in your body that you can live without? Most people know about the appendix, but what are the ...

Psychiatry often espouses brain disease explanations for mental disorders. Psychiatry pursued brain disease models due to ...

Your organs are constantly talking to each other in ways we’re only beginning to understand. Tapping into these communication ...

Even if you think you learned everything that you needed to know way back in biology class, everyone has knowledge gaps. And often you’re not even aware that they exist. There are tons of things we ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A new amendment to public health law, set to take effect Jan. 1, 2026, in New York state, will expand organ donation authority beyond family members for the first time. The new ...

Research reveals how natural selection shaped the Bajau sea nomads’ spleens to boost oxygen delivery, helping them dive for minutes on a single breath. For more than a thousand years, the Bajau — ...

The human brain is a fascinating and complex organ that supports numerous sophisticated behaviors and abilities that are observed in no other animal species. For centuries, scientists have been trying ...

In a rare and historic achievement, Children’s Hospital Colorado successfully completed its first dual heart and liver transplant in a pediatric patient. The life-saving surgery was performed on ...

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