Science writer Mary Roach chronicles both the history and the latest science of body part replacement in her new book. She ...

The bestselling science author spent time at the University of Michigan's Extracorporeal Life Support Lab studying how scientists are working to extend organ viability outside the body.

What does it mean to give life in the very moment you’re losing it? That question is at the heart of Dr Rachel Clarke’s The Story of a Heart, a book that embodies both the forefront of medicine and ...

The smart stethoscope "quickly delivers" an indication of whether someone has heart failure, atrial fibrillation or heart ...

Studies show 3 in 10,000 people develop heart cancer. In comparison, 1 in 20 women are expected to develop breast cancer. Why is that?

One halcyon spring day in 1903, the 69-year-old anatomist and naturalist Dr. James Bell Pettigrew sat at the top of a sloping street on the outskirts of St. Andrews, Scotland, perched inside a ...

In a study published in Science, researchers found that the defense protein "Resistin like molecule gamma" (Relmy), produced ...

Next week, La Jolla Playhouse will unveil its latest world premiere musical, "The Heart." Here's how a play about a human heart came to life. Human organs aren’t usually the leading characters in a ...

A team from Sparsh Hospital managed the transfer, carrying the heart from Yeshwanthpur Metro Station to Apollo Hospital at ...