HOUSTON (KTRK) -- For any parent, learning that your child needs heart surgery is frightening. But thanks to advances in modern medicine and technologies, procedures have become more routine, without ...

A medical team at National Taiwan University Hospital reports that they’ve completed the first beating heart transplant—a procedure in which a donor heart experiences no reduced blood flow during ...

A new transplant procedure could be the answer to enhancing access and successful outcomes for patients in need of a new heart. Known as a beating-heart transplant, the process reduces the times a ...

DETROIT, Michigan (WXYZ) -- Ferndale's Ken Miller is now the recipient of the first beating heart transplant in Michigan history. Not only that, he's now one of the ...

SEATTLE — Deep in a chest opened by surgical saw and knife, a scalpel carefully cuts a tiny hole in a major artery on the side of the beating heart. Blood spews in a pencil-lead-thin stream but stops ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ST. LOUIS – Heart disease remains a leading ...

RACINE -Ê Within a few hours of heart surgery last week, 68-year-old Barna Bencs of Racine was back on his feet at St. Mary's Medical Center, amazed at how good he felt. He and his family weren't the ...

PITTSBURGH (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- As many as half a million people in the U.S. undergo coronary artery bypass surgery every year -- but some older patients, or those with other medical conditions, may ...

Heart transplant patients who underwent a pioneering form of surgery have reunited with the medics who saved their lives to mark the 10th anniversary of the first operation of its kind. A group of 20 ...