Many young doctors in Italy responded to the calls recently put out by local administrations to meet the shortage of medical staff in hospitals unprecedented levels of pressure. Every doctor, whether they specialize in dermatology or gynecology, is drafted in to deal with the virus.

Assi and his husband got married in Barcelona, afraid of homophobic extended family members.

He said his dad was still suspicious of their relationship up until the wedding. ‘Something in him changed that day,’ he said. ‘He saw what he couldn’t see before. He felt the love that he had never felt

“This was a breakthrough surgery and brings us one step closer to solving the organ shortage crisis. There are not enough donor human hearts available to meet the long list of potential recipients,” said Bartley P. Griffith, MD, who transplanted the pig heart into patient David Bennett.

CBS News clip showing how medicine is moving towards growing new parts from your own cells. Although research is still in the experimental stage, there are very positive signs that the procedure may soon become a reality.

The COVID-19 crisis has been compared to the Spanish flu pandemic that killed millions around the world in 1918. That disease affected everything from the results of World War I to the development of public health systems. But despite its name ... the Spanish flu isn’t actually from Spain. And can w

It can lose its tail and have a new one 24 hours later. Magic? No, it's just the great self-regenerating potential of the zebra fish. Christian Jopling, a researcher at the Barcelona Centre for Regenerative Medicine, explains how studies on these fish can help us to discover how to regenerate human ...

How the Sagrada Família in Barcelona, Spain, will look once completed. n 1882, construction of Sagrada Família started under architect Francisco de Paula del Villar. In 1883, when Villar resigned Gaudí took over as chief architect, transforming the project with his architectural and engineering sty

Allergy season information Over 35 million Americans experience seasonal allergies, especially during the spring time. The best way to deal with your allergies is to start taking medicine a few weeks before you anticipate experiencing symptoms according to television show "The DRs."Common seasonal a...

Mom gave a blood sample. Dad spit. The entire genome of their fetus was born. Researchers at the University of Washington have, for the first time, done a near-total genome sequence of a fetus in this way. Scientists published the results of this study in the journal Science Translational Medicine, ...

The 'Dance of the 41' changed the way that Mexico interpreted gender and sexuality forever. The number 13 is commonly considered unlucky, but in Mexico, the number 41 has been seen as taboo and avoided—at one point the Army left the number out of battalions, hotel and hospital rooms didn’t use it an