Doctors managing deceased organ donors routinely treat the donors' bodies with thyroid hormones in a bid to preserve heart function and increase the quantity and quality of hearts and other organs ...

A hormone that can reverse obesity in mice is offering new clues about how the brain controls body weight. Researchers at the ...

Washington University physician Raj Dhar, MD, (front) and Gary Marklin, MD, the chief medical officer at Mid-America Transplant in St. Louis, care for a deceased organ donor. Dhar and Marklin led a ...

Ever wonder why you feel like crying over a pet food commercial one day but can watch a tearjerker movie completely unfazed the next? Or why your weight seems to fluctuate despite eating the same ...

The following outlines aspects of the female reproductive system, including the internal and external organs, the menstrual cycle, the egg, and reproductive hormones. The menstrual cycle is a monthly ...

Giving unstable brain-dead heart donors intravenous levothyroxine did not lead to more hearts being transplanted, a randomized trial showed. In hemodynamically unstable potential donors, administering ...

When people struggle with bloating, constipation, nausea after fatty meals – or just feeling hormonally “off” – they usually do not think first about the liver and gallbladder. Most people think of ...

Though the ovary is often reduced to its role in reproduction, research shows it plays a surprisingly central role in a woman’s health throughout her body and lifetime. It is becoming more important ...

Hormones are the body’s chemical messengers. They act on various tissues and organs in the body to change their behavior. For example, the hormone prolactin stimulates the production of breastmilk.