Kidney transplant programs at hospitals in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Texas have been shut down because of problems during medical procedures.

Waiting to treat the commonest viral infections in transplant recipients until they reach a certain threshold is better than prophylactically treating all recipients, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American So…

preventing diabetes. Far fewer obese people developed that disease if they had stomach-shrinking operations rather than usual care to try to slim down, a large study in Sweden found.

( University of Colorado Denver ) Of 15 patients who received TBI before age 3, many developed endocrine and metabolic problems including testicular malfunction (78 percent), restrictive pulmonary disease due to high levels of blood triglycerides (74 p…

Maybe this will be the downtown study that ends all downtown studies.

Although people with atrial fibrillation (AF) and people with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are both at elevated risk for stroke and other vascular events, people with both conditions have not been well studied, since patients with CKD have been exclude…

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has survived its four-day "brain transplant" in fine shape and is now gearing up for its first Red Planet drive, scientists say.

A study published in the Annals of Surgery 12 years ago had shown that survival among patients with alcoholic liver failure 13 years after liver transplants was about half that among patients with hepatitis-C liver failure ' 24 per cent in alcoholi…

NEW YORK, Aug. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — JARVIK HEART, Inc., a privately-held company that develops and manufactures cardiac assist devices, announced full FDA approval of its Pivotal Trial for evaluation …

Michigan is one of 12 states where at least 30 percent of adults are obese, according to a federal study.