WHEN Cheng Peiming was dragged from his cell, hauled to a hospital, and pinned down to have organs forcibly removed, he had ...

If there is one message I hope people take from my experience, it is this: you are your body’s greatest advocate ...

For two days, the patient lived as a human being with no lungs, stabilized by a machine that breathed and buffered his ...

Mayo Clinic researchers have developed a pioneering method to mend damaged hearts without open-heart surgery, an advance that could one day transform the treatment of heart failure ...

Stage 1 lung carcinoid tumors are confined to the lung and have not spread to lymph nodes or distant organs. Tumors at this stage are typically small and localized, which often allows for curative ...

A few doctors described my survival as a miracle. No, I don’t smoke. No, I don’t have a family history of heart issues.

"He was like a tiny bomb I was afraid to touch, but the nurses encouraged me to hold him." ...

A month after Iran’s security forces unleashed a brutal crackdown on protests, FRANCE 24 gathered testimonies from Iranian ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — As a person who has struggled with a cigarette addiction for more than 40 years, annual low-dose ...

A 58-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital 3 weeks after lumbar surgery because of diplopia and fever. Left leg pain and a rash had preceded the fever and diplopia. A diagnosis was made.

Most days, our bodies are just there—mundane vessels we inhabit on autopilot. We wake up, get on with our routines, eat, sleep, repeat. But the moment you actually stop and think about what’s ...

"Nurses kept coming by to see him because usually people don't live through his specific type of break. He had to have a halo for a while (think Regina George after the bus), and recovery was not fun, ...