the human heart will beat more than 2.5 billion times. Give a tennis ball a good, hard squeeze. You're using about the same amount of force your heart uses to pump blood out to the body.

Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human.

The man, who was in his 40s and suffering from severe heart failure, was also the first person to leave the hospital with a ...

A scientific technique that rapidly increases the body's production of anti-inflammatory cells promotes healing from heart ...

The patient, an Australian man in his 40s, lived with his fully functional heart implant long enough to be discharged from ...

It also shows how the pacemaker cells restart her heart after the surgery. This short film is from the BBC series, Inside the Human Body. The 3D footage brings the topic to life and would enhance ...

In addition to causing several types of cancer, human papillomavirus (HPV) appears to bring a significantly increased risk of ...

Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are back on Earth - but what has nine months in space done to them?

Like any other muscle, the heart doesn’t need to work as hard ... “Space is just not very hospitable to the human body,” said Emmanuel Urquieta, vice chair of aerospace medicine and ...

A human body functions depends on Earth's gravity, hence the weightlessness of space can have noticeable affects on it, which ...