Scientific studies show that the procedure is full of holes In 1971 then New York Times columnist James Reston had his appendix removed at a hospital in China. The article he wrote about his experience still reverberates today. His doctors used a standard set of injectable drugs—...

The agency is reconsidering its moratorium on funding such work Federal health officials said Thursday they are reconsidering a moratorium on the funding of research in which human tissues are transplanted into early, nonhuman embryos—creating organisms known as chimeras. The pr...

Macular degeneration is a threat that Chinese society needs to pay more attention to, a key health association has said. Also known as age-related macular degeneration, the condition occurs due to damage to the macula of the retina, and often results in blurred or loss of central vision...

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found that a protein, known as CD47, has a role in enabling atherosclerosis, the process underlying heart attacks and strokes. CD47 on the surface of many cells, including those of tumor cells in the human body, gives a ...