A look at Pope Francis' previous hospitalizations and health problems
Pope Francis was hospitalized Friday for the fourth time since he was elected in 2013
Pope Francis was hospitalized Friday for the fourth time since he was elected in 2013
Scientists warn the Trump administration’s drastic cuts for medical research endanger patients, will cost thousands of jobs and threaten America’s standing as a world leader in science and innovation
A New Hampshire man has become the second person known to be living with a pig kidney
Three people with a muscle-destroying disease destined to worsen got a little stronger when an implanted device zapped their spinal cord
The man who hopes to be President Donald Trump’s health secretary says he needs to see data showing vaccines are safe, but he dismissed the evidence shown by an influential Republican senator
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An Alabama woman is thriving a record 61 days and counting after receiving a pig kidney, a new milestone in the quest for animal-to-human transplants
About half of U.S. adults have high blood pressure and too few have it under control
Americans can now get an updated COVID-19 vaccine
For a history-making two months, a pig's kidney worked normally inside a brain-dead man
Surgeons have transplanted a pig’s heart into a dying man in a bid to prolong his life
Fall vaccination season is in full swing, with health officials urging both an updated COVID-19 shot and flu vaccine for most everyone
The Nobel Prize in Medicine has been awarded to two scientists whose work led to mRNA vaccines against COVID-19
U.S. regulators have added another option for fall COVID-19 vaccination, updated shots made by Novavax
The second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig has reached the one-month mark and a hospital video shows he's working hard to recover
Maryland doctors say the second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig has died
Surgeons in New York have performed the world's first transplant of an entire human eye, an extraordinary addition to a face transplant
Scientists have found a way to help Alzheimer's drugs seep inside the brain faster — using sound waves to jiggle a temporary opening in its protective shield
Crib cameras are offering a clue to a rare but devastating tragedy _ when seemingly healthy young children suddenly die in their sleep and autopsies can’t tell why
Northern Europeans are more prone to multiple sclerosis than other ancestries and now a study of ancient DNA hints at why
Women are far more likely than men to get autoimmune diseases, illnesses like lupus or rheumatoid arthritis that occur when the immune system mistakenly attacks their own bodies
Any parent who's ever called one of their children by the other's name likely could empathize when President Joe Biden mixed up the names of French leaders Macron and Mitterrand
A study of older adults in China offers a closer look at the dominolike sequence of brain changes that lead to Alzheimer's
Losing an hour of sleep as daylight saving time kicks in can do more than leave you tired and cranky the next day _ it also could harm your health
Researchers revved up immune cells that shrank an extremely aggressive type of brain tumor when tested in a handful of patients
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