Cedric Lodge, a former morgue manager at Harvard Medical School, receives an eight-year prison sentence for stealing and ...

Researchers have also demonstrated that bodily signals such as breathing patterns and gut rhythms can influence emotional ...

Tiny robots small enough to slip through blood vessels are moving from speculative fiction into the medical lab, promising ...

There may be good reasons to object to using animals as living organ factories, including welfare concerns. But the rationale behind the NIH ban that human cells could make pigs too human rests on a ...

These everyday habits may nudge your body to store more visceral fat—the harmful type that increases risk of chronic disease.

Like many emerging technologies, this one can improve our lives, make us miserable or both. Nobody knows yet which it will be ...

It's easy to feel lost in the vast wilderness that is stomach-or more accurately, abdominal-pain. But doctors have learned to ...

Ultra-processed foods have been heavily criticised from a range of quarters, from the global bodies such as the UN’s World Health Organisation to national health bodies. Now, medical journal the ...

The chief executive of an organ donation organization in New Jersey ordered staff to continue harvesting organs from a patient who had shown signs of life, House committee investigators charge. The ...

If you melted down the average UK adult, you’d find around 22 kilograms (48.5 pounds) of creamy yellow fat – equivalent to around 88 blocks of lard, enough to fill two-thirds of a small suitcase or ...

A single blood test can reveal the biological ages of 11 different organs and bodily systems, potentially highlighting the risk of disease in those areas. “The goal is to guide care with one test that ...

Biological sex is usually described in simple binary terms: male or female. This works well for germ cells (sperm versus eggs), but for other body organs it is of little help. A new study by the Max ...