One halcyon spring day in 1903, the 69-year-old anatomist and naturalist Dr. James Bell Pettigrew sat at the top of a sloping ...

Dissecting cadavers is a mainstay of medical education, but it relies on donors and poses ethical and other challenges. Roshni Shastri and Crispin Wiles argue that modern teaching has moved on, but ...

In the first half of the course, students learned concepts like metabolic rate, or the amount of energy the body needs to ...

“Nothing thrills me more than the human body,” writes Gabriel Weston in her new book. Alive is a gripping and lyrical tour of the major organs – heart, liver, bone, lungs, brain, kidneys ...

Scientists have spotted unique subtypes of fat cells in the human body, and by unraveling their functions, they found that the cells may play a role in obesity.

The first volume — “Atlas of Cardiac Anatomy ... the heart. The finished atlas will include 40 open-access anatomical volumes, said Shivkumar, which will span the entire human body.

Atlantic Coast High School students experienced virtual reality anatomy learning through a ... a chance Monday to look closely inside the human heart, brain, lungs, liver, colon and other places ...

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The human body has evolved to shield its vital organs, from the brain's hard skull and meninges to the ribs and sternum protecting the heart and lungs. Even abdominal structures are safeguarded by ...

24 February 2025 marks three years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. FIDH member organisations in Ukraine —the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (KHPG) and the Center for Civil ...

As she has gotten older her heart couldn’t sustain her larger body, which led to her being diagnosed with heart failure in January, her mother wrote on Facebook. Jeneen Deal praised Vance’s ...

Young adults are more susceptible to the impact of nicotine, as their bodies are more sensitive to the dangerous and highly addictive chemical than middle-aged adults, according to a new study.