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A very unusual blood transplant appears to have cured an American man living in Berlin of infection with the AIDS virus, but doctors say the approach is not practical for wide use.

Gal-pal doctors Nat and Kat have crossed the finish line to win "The Amazing Race." They have also made history, becoming the first two-woman team to claim the million-dollar grand prize in the 17 seasons of the CBS reality series.

Andrea Ybarra's donated heart was beating rhythmically by the time she awoke from the grogginess of her surgery. Lub-dub. Lub-dub. Lub-dub. In fact, it was warm and pumping even before doctors transplanted it.

Doctors have sharply slashed some financial ties to drug companies, thanks to increased scrutiny about relationships that critics say improperly ...

An official with the Vatican criticized the decision to award the Nobel prize for Medicine to British doctor Robert G.

Two doctors stood over a patient. One made markings next to the outer corner of the patient’s eye.

“We’re going to go in mainly through here,” he said.

The other doctor examined the markings and leaned in with a pen of his own. “Let me mark the other side just in case,” he said.

Gene therapy has been used to correct an inherited blood disorder in what doctors say is a major step forward in treatment.

“He’s doing things dead babies don’t do — you might want to come see this!” Kate Ogg told doctors who had declared her premature baby dead.

A doctor involved in an "on-again, off-again" relationship apparently tried to force her way into her boyfriend's home by sliding down the chimney, police said Tuesday. Her decomposing body was found there three days later.

A Spanish man who underwent the world's first full face transplant appeared before TV cameras Monday for the first time since his surgery, thanking his doctors and the family of the donor.