Purple urine? Skin like tree bark? An allergy to water? To the patients who have them, these weird diseases, syndromes and ...

The candles on your birthday cake don't tell the whole story. As anyone who ever attended a high-school reunion can tell you, some people age faster than others.

A surgical robot has successfully removed pig gallbladders in a lab setting without any hands-on help during the actual surgery steps.

A new study reveals that our organs age at different speeds, and those differences can predict future disease risk and even ...

Unlike the brain and spinal cord, peripheral nerve cells, whose long extensions reach the skin and internal organs, are ...

With the clearance, Mendaera is starting a limited launch of Focalist with select medical institutions this year.

The surge is, by all accounts, due to a regulation that took effect in 2021 focused on groups called organ procurement organizations (OPOs). You probably haven’t heard of OPOs, but if you or anyone ...

Pulse Why India’s organ donation system needs an urgent fix Despite rising pledges, gaps in healthcare infrastructure, ventilator access and communication leave thousands of pledged organs unused ...

It also overlooks the landmark 2022 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report on modernizing the organ donation system. This was a report mandated by Congress, yet it ...

Being from Hawai’i, I’ve seen firsthand how geographic location contributes to inequities in the organ transplant system. For example, over the past eight years, 604 kidneys were donated locally in ...

Records show that when the system’s oversight committee reviews instances of bypassed patients, it closes more than 99.5 percent of cases without action, usually concluding that the organ was at ...