A central Minnesota couple is on a mission to meet all of the people who received their daughter’s organs. Jaydan Pautzke ...

Microplastics now make up a percentage of our brain, which is alarming since we still don’t fully understand their impact on our health. The post Since It Was Proven Our Brains Are Littered With ...

Blood clots form in response to signals from the lungs of cancer patients—not from other organ sites, as previously ...

Plastics have infiltrated every recess of the planet, including your lungs, kidneys and other sensitive organs. Scientists ...

The ancient Greek philosopher and polymath Aristotle once concluded that the human heart is tri-chambered and that it was the ...

Microplastics have been found everywhere in the human body, including blood, breast milk, testicles, heart tissue, lung ...

For now, her family has to hold her back because she is immunocompromised after getting her second double lung transplant ... we recovered from the body of donor, the organ would go on ice ...

One reason that tonsils may grow back is that one of the operations to remove them is a partial tonsillectomy. Only removing ...

It is the floor of the thoracic cavity and the ceiling of the abdominal cavity. Many body organs are near the diaphragm. Your heart, lungs, and the upper part of your esophagus (food pipe) are in the ...

It creates surface tension that helps maintain the position of the lungs in the chest cavity. The pleurae also serve as a division between other organs in the body, preventing them from interfering ...

A mortuary worker has been sentenced to 15 years behind bars after she sold stolen human remains to a collector online. Candace Chapman Scott, 37, discovered a buyer for the body parts she was ...