Healthcare providers label patients with diagnoses that often cause anxiety and distress. A better approach is to rename a diagnosis as an imbalance to empower the patient.

A new study found that cannabis users under the age of 50 are about 6.2 times more likely to experience a heart attack than ...

People with Down syndrome are denied organ transplants. Charlotte Woodward received one and she wants others to have the same ...

More than four years after a 77-year-old man walked into a Florida hospital with pain in his chest, a new report says preparing and eating feral pig meat was the likely cause of the man’s yearslong ...

The ovary is the female gonad, which houses egg cells. Women are born with all the eggs they will ever have, and each egg is ...

The next time you're on a plane, try these body-based practices that can provide relief when you’re “stuck” in tight spaces.

AUSTIN – The Texas Health and Human Services Commission is highlighting resources for kidney disease patients and encouraging people to consider joining the organ donor registry as part of National ...

Partial heart transplants provide a range of lifesaving options for children with complex congenital heart conditions, and can lead to a domino effect of life-saving procedures.

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One halcyon spring day in 1903, the 69-year-old anatomist and naturalist Dr. James Bell Pettigrew sat at the top of a sloping ...

Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1 (DM1) is the most common adult-onset form of muscular dystrophy and a condition that severely affects multiple organs including skeletal muscle, heart, brain and the ...

The man, who was in his 40s and suffering from severe heart failure, was also the first person to leave the hospital with a titanium heart. He is recovering well after getting a new, donor heart ...