Science writer Mary Roach is fascinated by the human body, especially, she says, the "gooey bits and pieces of us that are performing miracles on a daily basis." Take the human heart, for instance. If ...

Advances in pediatric heart care are helping more children survive long enough to receive a transplant—but a critical ...

In March 2025, surgeons at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center in Houston, Texas, performed the first fully robotic heart transplant to take place in the United States. The operation avoided a ...

Despite being on life support and waiting for a critical heart transplant, Pascual shared jokes with his family and nurses, ...

Many body parts can be transplanted or replaced with artificial equivalents, including corneas, livers, hearts, joints, and even entire faces. This technology will improve by leaps and bounds ...

Despite the growth of organ preservation technologies, many donor organs are still transported in unregulated ice coolers.

SHREVEPORT, La. - Jess Migues of Stonewall has been fighting for her life since the day she was born. She is asking the community for support in the new year. "I was born a blue baby. So I was flown ...