CHICAGO - This Valentine’s Day, we heard from a woman who recently underwent a rare dual organ transplant. Doctors gave Laura Valentine a new heart and liver. Valentine, 35, was born with only half a ...

The vagus nerve does it all—tells your lungs to breathe, controls your heart rate, and even forms the foundation for a whole ...

Cardiovascular diseases claim more lives in the U.S. than all forms of cancer and accidental deaths combined, according to ...

The female reproductive system includes internal and external organs, each designed to carry out varying functions. Learn more about the anatomy of this system.

Valentine's Day is all about the hearts: heart-shaped chocolates, cards, balloons and even pizza. But the heart hasn't always ...

"Heart disease takes years to decades to develop, and the process starts in the younger years," one heart doctor told us. Here, cardiologists share their best-kept secrets to set up your ticker for a ...

There are four dimensions of heart health — physical, emotional, social and spiritual — and true well-being requires us to ...

A beating pig heart on Jan. 21, 2025, at the University of Minnesota's Visible Heart Lab in Minneapolis. At the U's heart lab, millions of dollars of tubing and wires and technology work to keep a ...

The team’s study results, published today in the journal Immunity, outline their discovery of a specific type of regulatory T cell that can home back into the thymus and repair the organ when it's ...

After the first successful kidney transplantation in the state last year, the Tripura government is set to prepare a roadmap for organ donation ... Soon after the operation, the government found ...

It started as a respiratory illness—or so everyone thought. But it quickly became apparent that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, was so much more.

The study found ... organs like the tongue have this capacity. The new study addressed this issue in fruit fly larvae, commonly called maggots, because of the simplicity of their nervous system ...