Even with modern prenatal care, thousands of U.S. families each year experience the heartbreak of stillbirth, and a surprising number happen without warning. A study, published Monday in JAMA, analyzed nearly 2.8 million pregnancies and found that...

A 67-year-old New Hampshire man has set a medical milestone after living more than nine months with a gene-edited pig kidney, doctors announced Monday.  The experimental transplant, performed by surgeons at Mass General Brigham, lasted 271 days,...

A young boy in New Zealand needed emergency surgery and lost part of his bowel after swallowing more than 80 small, high-powered magnets, according to a new case report published in the New Zealand Medical Journal. Doctors...

Hormel Foods is recalling 4.87 million pounds of ready-to-eat frozen chicken after pieces of metal were found in some products, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) said. The recall covers select chicken...

The eyes are the windows to the soul, the old saying goes. They also might serve as a window into a person’s heart health, a new study adds. The tiny blood vessels in a person’s eyes can...

Ketamine might not be effective in treating depression, new clinical trial results reveal. Ketamine infusions added to standard depression care did nothing for people hospitalized with the mood disorder, researchers reported Oct. 22 in JAMA Psychiatry. “Our...

Women are less likely than men to find a donor lung, despite new systems to make organ allocation fairer, a new study says. Women were 32% less likely than men to receive a lung implant before the...

Folks who’ve suffered one or two concussions at some point shouldn’t worry about developing chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a new study has concluded. CTE is more common in people who experience many repeated head impacts, like the...

A friendly clasp on the shoulder. A comforting hug. Holding hands. All these can be dangerous in the wrong hands, a new study reports. Manipulative and narcissistic people are more likely to use touch in a calculating...

Frequent heartburn might be a sign that you have a drinking problem, a new study says. Patients had an 18% higher risk of diagnosis with alcohol use disorder if they suffered from gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), also...