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 ...

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

More than 100 million people in the United States suffer from metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD ...

Research on water intake more broadly suggests drinking more fluids can help with weight control by increasing feelings of ...

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 ...

President Trump was recently spotted with a prominent blue bruise on his hand, sparking widespread speculation. While minor ...

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 ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising genetic shift that may explain how animals with backbones—from fish and frogs to ...

Francisco Lindor, Jackson Holliday and Corbin Carroll recently suffered hamate bone injuries, bringing injury, and recovery ...