Marcus Edsall-Parr, a teenage kidney patient in Michigan, has been getting dialysis treatments for years. Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times The sickest patients are supposed to get priority for ...

Dr. Jauhar is a cardiologist at Northwell Health in New York, where Dr. Patel and Dr. Smith are the directors of the center for heart failure and transplant. People die in many ways, but in medicine ...

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) links emotions to specific organs, affecting both mental and physical health. TCM treatments focus on balancing body and mind with techniques like acupuncture and ...

As I was getting ready to perform a kidney transplant from a deceased donor on a recent Saturday afternoon, my phone rang. When I saw the ID for the organ allocation coordinator, I knew immediately ...

Cervical epithelial cells are far from passive bystanders in the body's immune system. New research shows they actually play an active and highly coordinated role in detecting and fighting infections.