Perfusion keeps a donated organ alive outside the body, giving surgeons extra time and increasing the number of transplants possible. By Ted Alcorn On some level, the human liver in the operating ...

The organs play a vital role in the Abbey’s life and worship. They support the singing of the Choir, help congregations to raise the roof in hymn-singing, create the atmosphere for services and ...

Days later, a nurse came into Manuel’s room to tell him that he would get a liver due to the deceased 21-year-old being a registered organ donor. I want people to leave the fear out of it.

The hole can be small or large and sometimes other organs, such as the stomach and liver, can be found outside of the baby’s body as well,” the CDC says. But in Dorothy’s case, she was born ...

The hearing organ in mammals is a spiraling structure called the "cochlea" from the Greek word for snail. It spirals out from the saccule (one of the balance organs). There are two and a half turns in ...

An English mother was shocked when she found out her daughter would be born with her bowels and numerous internal organs outside of her stomach. “All her kidneys, stomach, liver, fallopian tubes ...

Visceral fat is fat that wraps around organs in your belly that are deep inside you. It can surround your liver, intestines, stomach, and other internal organs. It's healthy and normal to have ...

The Benson Great Hall's magnificent 4,000-pipe Blackinton Organ is one of a handful of concert hall organs in Minnesota, and stands as the crowning glory of one of the finest performing arts centers ...

Globally, there is a persistent shortage of viable organs for transplantation. This unmet need has spurred the development of “engineered organs” — cultivated tissue that mimics the structure and ...

How old is your pancreas? What about your brain or heart? Scientists have come up with a way to estimate the age of organs, ...

Peyton Nurse was 21 years old when he died and was a designated organ donor. After his death, he was able to save three lives including an Arizona father who was on the heart transplant list.

A toilet-dwelling rodent sent a Canadian man into organ failure and sepsis after sinking its teeth into his hand. The 76-year-old man was trying to fish the rat out of his toilet when the furry ...