One morning in May 2019, a cardiac surgeon stepped into the operating room at Boston Children’s Hospital more prepared than ever before to perform a high-risk procedure to rebuild a child’s heart. The ...

Researchers use AI to uncover how a fading chest gland shapes long‑term health outcomes. Your upper chest could be the key to your longterm helath. A new study found a correlation between the health ...

Scientists can now do research on live human organs without petri dishes or animal testing.

For most of my professional life I have thought about air pollution through the organs I know best. As a heart and lung surgeon, I spent decades studying how polluted air damages lungs, damages the ...

Each year, thousands of people in the U.S. die waiting for donated organs. A new book shares how organs from other species could change that.

Discover UCL's Human Organ Atlas: an interactive 3D platform for studying human organs in unprecedented detail ...

Learn what vitamin B6 does in your body, including benefits for brain health, energy, immunity, heart health. Plus, the best food sources of this essential nutrient.

As cannabis becomes more widely used around the world, scientists are paying closer attention to how it affects human health.

Thousands die every year waiting for an organ donation. The Indicator team talks to two economists who argue that paying the families of organ donors would save lives.

In A Nutshell Researchers have launched a free, publicly accessible 3D atlas of real human organs that lets anyone zoom from whole-organ views down to near-cellular detail in a web browser. The scans ...

If watching The Pitt is giving you a renewed interest in the human body in all of its gory glory, there’s a new tool that will help satisfy your curiosity. An international team of scientists ...

An international team of scientists and clinicians has announced the launch of a new open-access 3D portal that allows users ...