HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A groundbreaking procedure performed in Houston is offering new hope for people with end-stage heart disease. For the first time ever, doctors at the Texas Heart Institute at ...

A landmark heart transplant at Ernakulam General Hospital in Kerala has given Durga Kaami, a 21-year-old woman from Nepal, a ...

Working with the European Aeronautics Defense & Space (EADS) — best known as the maker of the Airbus jet — French researchers have developed a pioneering new artificial heart. Dr. Alain Carpentier, ...

Seventeen-year-old Macey Brown returned to St. Louis Children’s Hospital six weeks after becoming the first child in Missouri to receive a combined heart and kidney transplant.

In 2024, Boston-based Tufts Medical Center performed 70 adult heart transplants, breaking its 2023 record by nine and setting the New England region record for the second year in a row. The ...

An Australian man in his forties made medical history by becoming the first person in the world to live for over 100 days with a completely artificial titanium heart while awaiting a transplant. On ...

The progress in cardiac surgery has opened up treatment choices for people with very different heart conditions. What once ...

Cardiac surgeon Amy Fiedler, MD, stares at the motionless heart below her in an operating room at UC San Francisco's Helen ...

Last Christmas was a worrying time for the family of little Penelope Greathead. The two-year-old, from Ravenscar, North ...

The eyes can compensate for floaters and make us think the vision is clear. The kidneys will cover for each other if one of them has cysts. The brain might try to grow new connections if there’s a ...