WHEN Cheng Peiming was dragged from his cell, hauled to a hospital, and pinned down to have organs forcibly removed, he had ...

A heart attack activates stress circuits in the brain that evolved for survival but can amplify inflammation, disrupt healing ...

Researchers discovered a feedback loop between nerve cells, the immune system and the heart. They think it shows promise as a ...

This unexpected ability opens the door for scientists to stimulate cellular mitosis and improve heart function after an ...

Pioneering research by experts at the University of Sydney, the Baird Institute and the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michigan State University scientists have built tiny beating heart organoids that can be driven into atrial fibrillation with ...

A central figure in the sprawling, nationwide network of human remains trading that ensnared Harvard Medical School was sentenced in federal court to six years in prison. Jeremy Pauley, who lives in ...

The former Harvard morgue manager and his wife are heading to prison after they were found to be at the center of a scheme in which they removed body parts from human remains and sold them. Cedric ...

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 ...

Researchers at the Centre for Heart Lung Innovation (HLI), St. Paul’s Hospital, developed an in-house 3D printer that produces living human heart tissue from patient-derived stem cells. This enables ...

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Many body parts can be transplanted or replaced with artificial equivalents, including corneas, livers, hearts, joints, and even entire faces. This technology will improve by leaps and bounds ...