The human body is a remarkably resilient thing, as many case studies of people surviving without organs tell us ...

The heart is the body's hardest-working muscle. Whether you're awake or asleep, or exercising or resting, your heart is always at work. It pumps blood through arteries to deliver oxygen to organs and ...

Though an estimated 60 million people around the world have atrial fibrillation, or A-fib, a type of irregular and often fast heartbeat, it's been at least 30 years since any new treatments have been ...

Doctors are no longer just warning that plastic is everywhere in the environment. They are now literally finding tiny ...

Researchers grew a piece of a human heart in a lab. The new model isn't an entire heart. Instead, it's a model of the ventricle, one of the heart's major parts. The researchers say they reverse ...

A New Brunswick biochemistry professor is using fish to better understand the impact that taurine — an amino acid — could ...

HUMPHREYS COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — A year after a human heart was found in a salt pile in Humphreys County, investigators are still unsure who it belonged to or how exactly it ended up there. In an ...

I've been a heart surgeon for 40 years. I was always a kid who liked to help people and around the time I was leaving high school, the first heart transplant was undertaken in South Africa, followed ...

How do they do it? This question often comes to mind when I look at parents raising a child in today’s world. What an awesome responsibility they face every day, as parents entrusted with the ...