HHS Deputy Secretary Jim O'Neill called out Canada for how its permissive physician-assisted suicide program fuels organ donation rates.

Even if you think you learned everything that you needed to know way back in biology class, everyone has knowledge gaps. And ...

The House Ways and Means Oversight subcommittee held a hearing o as part of its investigation into the questionable ...

Cancer is a disease that starts with uncontrolled cell division and eventually causes tissue and organ damage. The disease ...

The National Kidney Registry has matched thousands of kidney donors with recipients. It has also paid millions of dollars to ...

All four patients who received pig organs to replace their diseased organs have now died, though researchers involved in these transplants say they will keep trying to improve this alternative source ...

Forget emotional baggage — you’re hauling around spare parts. Turns out, you don’t need all 78 of your organs to get through life, which comes in handy when surgeons have to start making cuts.

For decades, China obtained human organs such as kidneys and livers from executed prisoners, a practice condemned by human rights activists and medical ethicists. China says they no longer do this and ...

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 now shows: ...

An Ohio couple whose teenage son was injured in a snowboarding accident has filed a lawsuit, claiming his doctors harvested his organs before he was declared dead. Eighteen-year-old Gregory Jacobs, of ...

Though medical science may still be years away from growing a heart outside of the human body, the scientists at Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) are getting closer every day to ...

Frogs that freeze themselves solid in the winter and thaw in the spring inspired methods to extend the storage time for ...