The surgery involves harvesting skin, blood vessels, nerves and sometimes bone from a brain-dead donor and transplanting them to a recipient. Donor matching, lifelong follow-up are key challenges.

Men tend to lose the Y chromosome from their cells as they age. But because the Y bears few genes other than for male determination, it was thought this loss would not affect health. But evidence has ...

Dense tissue can make cancer harder to see on a standard mammogram because both dense tissue and tumors appear white on imaging. For some women, additional screening such as ultrasound, MRI, or 3D ...

Men tend to lose the Y chromosome from their cells as they age. But because the Y bears few genes other than for male ...

Scientists may have stumbled across a network of vessels in the brain that helps clear out waste fluid – a discovery that could "represent a paradigm shift in our understanding of all neurodegenerativ ...

Here's how doctors describe a "complex tibia fracture," the injury Lindsey Vonn says she has after a horrific Olympics crash.

The 61-year-old Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Director in an Instragram post states that one out of five mole turned out to be Squamous Cell Carcinoma (SCC), following biopsy.

Both the UK and US Governments have pledged to end research using animals, but is such a goal realistic? And how might it change medical research? Talha Burki reports.

The Princess of Monaco may have retired from Olympic swimming back in 2007, but her diet and exercise regime are still core to how she keeps in shape ...

The central idea of BBC One's fresh-baked crime comedy, “Can You Keep A Secret?”—a man pretending to be dead, as his wife ...