By age 75, a noteworthy 50% of men develop an inguinal (groin) hernia—a bulge that results from soft tissue pushing through a ...

Following successful tests on rats and rhesus monkeys, the researchers studied their approach on a 46-year-old woman with ...

A novel medication-based approach has reversed inguinal hernias in mice and fully restored their normal anatomy, offering ...

This is especially problematic in cases of blocked blood vessels, which can repeatedly starve large areas of the heart of ...

In "remarkable" work, a patch of engineered heart muscle cells was used to strengthen a patient's heart before transplant.

Patches of beating, lab-grown muscle sewn into failing hearts can keep patients alive for years while they wait for a ...