When Eric Dane makes his first appearance on Grey’s Anatomy, the deck is stacked against him.

His breakout role came in 2006 as the handsome Dr. Mark Sloan, nicknamed McSteamy, the head of plastic surgery at a Seattle hospital. He died 10 months after announcing his A.L.S. diagnosis.

JIM Ambrose had an idyllic life in a rural town in Louisiana, running around the neighbourhood with friends, but there was a secret his family had kept from him since he was a baby. As a ...

An educational look at how medical science approaches organ replacement, from natural regeneration to modern transplant methods. Message to Ken Burns: What Lincoln said about our founders on slavery ...

I got exclusive access to preserved human body parts at Experience Anatomy in Charlotte, NC, including a liver, stomach, lungs, kidney, femur, brain, heart, and skull! In this video, I share a glimpse ...

Many body parts can be transplanted or replaced with artificial equivalents, including corneas, livers, hearts, joints, and even entire faces. This technology will improve by leaps and bounds ...

Scientists have discovered a method of helping human stem cells thrive in an animal embryo—a key development in efforts to grow human organs in animals for medical transplants. A study by UT ...

Illustration of a human body anatomy and internal organs. Each figure drawing is on a different layer. It’s probably not so much that pathologies themselves have changed that much during the last few ...

Science writer Mary Roach is fascinated by the human body, especially, she says, the "gooey bits and pieces of us that are performing miracles on a daily basis." Take the human heart, for instance. If ...

Forget emotional baggage — you’re hauling around spare parts. Turns out, you don’t need all 78 of your organs to get through life, which comes in handy when surgeons have to start making cuts.