Organ transplantation is the most effective therapy for patients with end-stage disease. Preservation solutions and techniques are crucial for donor organ quality, which is directly related to ...

At first glance, it might not seem like people have much in common with deer. But a strange discovery about how their antlers regenerate is lifting the lid on the unseen ways that our bodies work, too ...

Dennis Lee Rieger, 77, of Pleasant Hill, died on Jan. 4. Visitation will be from 9 to 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 10 at Oakwood United Methodist Church, 400 N.E. 56th St. in Pleasant Hill. The visitation ...

Few American distilleries carry a legacy as storied—or as dramatically interrupted—as J. Rieger and Co. Founded in 1887, the Kansas City whiskey house became the nation’s largest mail-order spirits ...

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Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: With more than 100,000 people in need of an organ transplant in the U.S. alone, scientists have turned toward perfecting human-animal chimeras as a ...

Washington — Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced on Thursday new action to reform the nation's organ transplant system, as well as a move to decertify an organ ...

Biological sex is usually described in simple binary terms: male or female. This works well for germ cells (sperm versus eggs), but for other body organs it is of little help. A new study by the Max ...

About 17 people die each day in the US waiting for an organ transplant — 6200 per year. And for the more than 10,000 Americans on the waiting list for a liver transplant, the future of medicine may ...

Reports and investigations reveal potential patient abuse related to organ transplants, including accelerating deaths for organ procurement. A federal investigation found a Kentucky organ procurement ...

You could be 45 on paper but 60 in your kidneys. “The fact that [the researchers] can create an organ age using proteins — and use it to predict diseases that you would expect to be predicted from ...

In the year before his suicide, Justin Rieger, a 22-year-old, Carroll County teacher and Christian group leader, took trips to Disney with his parents and soon-to-be wife. He got married in a ...