The agonising wait for an organ donor: ‘I’m always waiting for the call’ - Nine people a week are dying while on the waiting list for an organ transplant, which now numbers almost 8,700 ...

A larger waist circumference is also a decent proxy. As a general guide, more than 40 inches for men is associated with higher visceral fat. Basically, if you have a lot of body fat, there’s a good ...

For centuries the brain has been treated as one organ. A Stanford Medicine-led team says that is wrong: the front of the brain and the back of the brain arise from two entirely separate progenitor ...

A group of experts from Stanford University believes that our understanding of this part of our body has always been wrong ...

Jeanette Hedström was just 22 years old when she was involved in a horrific car crash and she has now reflected on what she ...