On a cutting surface inside a Scaife Hall laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh, Julia Kofler examines a brain, pointing out its weight, tiny specks of fatty plaque and other features visible ...

Contrary to accepted wisdom, kidney donations from people whose hearts have stopped beating may, in fact, be just as good as donations from brain-dead organ donors. That result — released today by the ...

Overall, the study found that 45% of all brain donors showed evidence of vascular brain injury, establishing a baseline rate across the entire sample of 740 people. White matter damage was the most ...

The prevalence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is approximately two times higher in African Americans (AA) compared to white/European-ancestry (EA) individuals living in the U.S. Some of this is due to ...

In this randomized trial involving hemodynamically unstable brain-dead potential heart donors, intravenous levothyroxine infusion did not result in more hearts being transplanted than saline infusion.

Dressed in a yellow hospital visitor’s jacket, the man steadies himself on crutches and enters the room where his son, ...