Your heart is an amazing organ. It continuously pumps oxygen and nutrient-rich blood throughout your body to sustain life. This fist-sized powerhouse beats (expands and contracts) 100,000 times per ...

While instructing medical students in anatomy, the great Renaissance physician Andreus Vesalius was in the habit of sketching muscles and nerves on the dissecting table. Like his forebears, he ...

As an early hub for modern medicine and education, Philadelphia was a nexus for both the science and art of human anatomy, with famed anatomists like Dr. William Osler leading dissections in his ...

According to the National Child Measuring Programme around one in four 10-11 year olds in England is obese, and at risk of developing obesity-related disease in adulthood. Now, researchers from King’s ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Wow, Shaolin just got the Shonda Rhimes treatment. Looking to "bypass the ordinary" during last Thursday's episode of "Grey's Anatomy," the Seattle Grace Hospital team was ...