The neurodegenerative disease shares protein clumps in common with appendixes, perhaps explaining why removing the organ is protective.

Three researchers, Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou, and Donna Strickland, who worked on optical tweezers and chirped pulse amplification win the 2018 award.

Among 11 infants treated to date, most survived and their heart function improved.

The Karolinska Institute’s latest decision includes a guilty verdict for one of the whistleblowers who contributed to the investigation.

The move by Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center follows an investigative news report detailing surgical errors and poor research practices.

The woman’s own cartilage was used to construct the transplant after she lost her left ear in a car crash.

The devices, which could one day treat children with esophageal atresia and short bowel, were recently tested in pigs.

After losing his genitals in a roadside bomb explosion, the soldier endured a 14-hour surgery to have a donated penis, scrotum, and partial abdominal wall attached.

William Halsted’s approach to mastectomy took the medical world by storm at the turn of the last century.