Elton John is still standing. The 77-year-old singer openly joked about his many health issues in a speech at the premiere of his new documentary, “Elton John: Never Too Late,” at the New York ...

More than 100,000 people in the U.S. are currently on the national waiting list for an organ transplant. Sadly, the chronic shortage of donated organs means that over 6000 patients every year die ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Illinois' first hospital-based organ donation center will begin operations on Thursday, and CBS News Chicago got an exclusive sneak peek at the new setup that could save hundreds ...

These models include 3D spheroids, organoids, bioprinting, and organ-on-chips. ‘Organ on a chip’: The new lab setup scientists are using instead of animals to test new drugs The global organ ...

Kentucky Organ Donor Affiliates is under investigation after allegations that it tried to pressure its personnel to retrieve organs from a hospital patient who was awake and later left the ...

Our organs and tissues do not all age at the same rate. Aging, marked by an increase in senescent cells—cells that are unable to divide and have lost their functions—affects the liver or ...

Families are increasingly turning down requests to donate a relative's organs, sometimes because their loved one's wishes were unknown. With the transplant waiting list at a 10-year high ...

An organ-procurement group in Kentucky pressured its personnel to retrieve organs from a hospital patient who was awake and later left the facility alive, an advocate for overhauling the U.S ...

The partner of a man whose organs were donated to four different people after he died in an accident says his death was not in vain. Macauley Owen, a groundworks engineer from Anglesey ...

An animated sequence which tours the human body, picturing and naming the major organs. The job of each organ is briefly explained. The brain, heart, lungs, stomach, liver, kidneys, intestines and ...

Support us to deliver journalism without an agenda. Scientists have developed a groundbreaking technique to peer through organs by turning tissue transparent with a common food dye. The new ...