Now, a team led by researchers at Harvard Medical School has made new strides in understanding the basic biology of internal organ sensing, which involves a complicated cascade of communication ...

Treating rare diseases can be complicated at the best of times, and it gets even more complicated when different patients ...

The skin is the largest organ in the body. It is an external rather than an internal organ. According to National Geographic, the average adult carries around 8 pounds and 22 square feet of skin ...

Workers in the chemical industry face some of the most severe risks to their internal organs, particularly their lungs and brain. Dave Martinez, an occupational health specialist at Boston Medical ...

Engineers and scientists at MSU have now enhanced this technology to protect important internal organs as well. Falls, car ...

A clinician spreads a thick goo on their abdomen, then presses a small probe into it to send acoustic waves into the patient’s body. These waves bounce off their soft tissues and body fluids ...

Age at onset may be important in “influencing phenotypic variations” of SSc. Internal organ, heart and kidney involvement, as well as pulmonary arterial hypertension, are “much more ...

When you start to heat up from exertion or the temperature outside, your body works to cool itself by moving warmer blood away from your internal organs and cooler blood toward them. It has two ...