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 ...

For the first time ever, surgeons at National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) successfully performed a heart transplant in which the donor organ never stopped beating. This revolutionary procedure ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

Dr. Dina Al Rameni and her transplant team at Hartford HealthCare delivered a ground-breaking, life-saving gift right before the holidays, performing what they said was beating heart transplant in a ...

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 ...

Washington State University researchers have developed a 3D-printed model of the left side of the heart that contracts and beats, offering the chance for surgeons and medical students to rehearse ...

FILMMAKERS -- WHO RELY ON INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS."///// TONIGHT AT 11, A SAVANNAH TEENAGER IS MAKING MEDICAL HISTORY. AT JUST 18 YEARS OLD -- HE'S ONE OF ONLY TWO PEOPLE IN THE NATION -- TO SURVIVE A ...