Anatomical Line Drawings eliminate the need to manually sketch the body system as related to the pathology of disease - we've drawn the normal anatomy for you. Simply choose a category and the ...

The digestive system is the series of tubelike organs that convert our meals into body fuel. There are about 30 feet (9 meters) of these convoluted pipeworks, starting with the mouth and ending ...

Research from Radboud university medical center reveals that T cells from the adaptive immune system can manipulate the memory of innate immune cells. Previously, it was believed that the memory ...

A Kentucky family is looking for answers after a man was declared brain dead and being prepared to have his organs harvested ...

The Biden administration announced plans to overhaul the organ procurement system, including “increasing transparency and accountability,” the Department of Health and Human Services’ Health ...

A former organ procurement worker who told Congress she was pressured to take organs from a person who was still alive was fired after her allegation was relayed during a recent hearing.

A Kentucky man was declared brain dead, and his organs were going to be donated. But then he woke up during the procedure.

At a hospital in Kentucky, a man who had been declared dead after a drug overdose was moving and visibly crying as he was ...

All complex body systems require the equivalent of brakes and a gas pedal to maintain control, and the vagus nerve serves these roles for many of our innate responses, nearly all of which occur ...

When watching characters perform surgery on your favorite TV medical dramas, you might wonder what shows use to create fake organs — and the answer is as gross as you feared it would be.

RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian health officials are scrambling to explain how six transplant patients in the country’s well-regarded public health system received organs infected with HIV — and ...

What consumers can do to reduce environmental health threats all around us - It’s a paradox of modern life: We want more and ...