"We still don't know exactly what makes labor start. We know all about the mechanics and physiology, but we don't know what ...

Biomedical engineers at Georgia Tech have developed a system for collecting and processing thermal images that allows for ...

The man, who was in his 40s and suffering from severe heart failure, was also the first person to leave the hospital with a ...

A New South Wales man with heart failure lived with the artificial heart for over 100 days while waiting to be matched with a heart donor.

The device, to be tested in more people, could be used as a temporary measure for those waiting for a donor organ.

A Bengaluru startup in pursuit of the Holy Grail—printing an actual organ like a heart, liver, or kidney. Organ rejection ...

Inflammation spikes throughout the body, possibly contributing to heart disease and other conditions. Bones thin by about 1.5 percent a month. Spinal discs harden. In the head, parts of the ...

The Mighty Pump That Keeps You AliveThe heart is one of the most important organs in the human body. It is responsible for blood pumping, which carries oxygen and nutrients to different parts of the ...

A pig’s heart beating in a human? This medical feat has already been achieved – at least for a short time. Kidneys from animals have also been transplanted. Last year, a 62-year-old man lived ...

On a night in 1997, Benjamin Dauda killed a gorilla for the first time. Shrouding his lanky frame in dark fog, he stalked a ...

On the gallows at Pentonville prison in November 1910, the rope snapped tight and one of the most notorious killers of the ...