UTRECHT, Netherlands (AP) — Els van der Heijden, who has cystic fibrosis, was finding it ever harder to breathe as her lungs filled with thick, sticky mucus. Despite taking more than a dozen pills and ...

Keefe Memorial, a critical access hospital in Cheyenne Wells, has partnered with a company to bring innovation to longstanding economic challenges ...

The study is one of the earliest applications for looking at human disease, and involves a miniature liver. It helps explain why some obese people who have Type 2 diabetes and a condition which builds ...

Hospital labs perform a critical function that guides clinical decision-making and impacts patient outcomes — and there is growing pressure for health system leaders to expand labs’ orbit of influence ...

The laboratory often lies at the beginning of a patient’s diagnostic journey, providing important information needed for physicians to make accurate clinical decisions. These insights put patients on ...

Stanford scientists have solved a key conundrum in keeping organoids — lab-grown clusters of cells that resemble human organs — alive. These mini-brains and mini-hearts mimic human organs and enable ...