A patient who needed lifesaving heart surgery has become the first person ever to receive a coronary artery bypass without ...

The performances honor the legacy of Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, a Black Chicago surgeon who performed the world's first ...

St. Luke’s University Health Network has reached an important milestone in advanced heart care. Members of St. Luke’s ...

SOME PEOPLE START THE NEW YEAR BY SCHEDULING DOCTOR’S APPOINTMENTS THAT THEY PUT OFF DURING THE HOLIDAYS. ONE LOUISVILLE MAN ...

Recently, 12 students from West Shamokin High School’s AP Biology and Anatomy classes traveled to Allegheny General Hospital ...

It’s a serious heart defect that can cause blood to flow into the wrong part of the heart chamber, and up until recently, it ...

Allen Tumey's mom said it's been a journey of ups and downs. Her 8-year-old son is nonverbal and has spent most of his life ...

Santa made a long-awaited return to NYU Langone Hospital in Mineola on Dec. 17 after being a patient there just weeks ago. Larry and Katherine Burke met the team that gave Larry heart surgery on Nov.

Sometimes, even Santa Claus needs help to keep the holiday spirit. Almost three weeks after undergoing heart surgery at NYU Langone in Mineola, Larry Burke, 74, an avid Santa Claus enthusiast, ...

For years, one vital blood vessel in the body has largely required open-heart surgery, even as less invasive vascular procedures became common elsewhere. That vessel is the ascending aorta — the ...

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