A new study finds that microplastics and nanoplastics accumulate at higher levels in the brain than in the liver and kidney.

An 8-year-old accidentally swallowed a magnetic toy from Amazon, effectively turning him into X-Men’s Magneto, Kennedy News and Media reported. Louise Mcfarlane gave her son, Junior Gallon, a set of ...

All three were hooked up to machines that provided a readout of their vital signs, and all three were prepared to have a syringe of manufactured blood injected into their veins. There were, of course, ...

Researchers say they have discovered an entirely new class of life inside the human body, and it is very similar to a virus.

As is the case for institutions treating the disease, a majority of the sickle cell patients at SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital are African American. The hospital recognized the need ...

A network of nerves similar to wires runs all through the human body, from the tips of your fingers and toes, through your ...

The reason that there are no skeletons at the wreck of the Titanic is basically because once the flesh of their bodies was ...

During a routine test, Johnny's middle school nurse discovered his severe scoliosis, a prevalent symptom of Marfan. This unexpectedly set his family on a path to uncover his underlying diagnosis at ...

On the Saturday before Thanksgiving, 11-year-old Vada saw her dad collapse. His heart had stopped. She immediately called 911 ...

Rapidly spreading, harrowing and potentially lethal, a necrotizing soft tissue infection — so-called flesh-eating disease — “scares the living daylights” out of doctors, as several shared on a ...

People with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes make up over a quarter of those waiting for an organ transplant in Wisconsin. People ...

Mayo Clinic's organoids, microscopic versions of organs that function like the real ones, have been used by doctors to study ...