After eight years of training, Dr. Maureen McKiernan made her debut as the lead surgeon on an infant heart transplant — an ...

A longtime Tucsonan who performed Arizona's first open-heart surgery and was an associate dean at the University of Arizona College of Medicine has died at 89. Dr. Robert M. Anderson died Friday at ...

A FILIPINO baby with a life-threatening heart condition underwent successful open-heart surgery in India, through the efforts of Filipino and Indian civic organizations. Baby Aviannalyn and her mother ...

Weeks after a 5-month-old infant died during heart surgery in eastern China, an official investigation has found procedural failures and management lapses at the hospital where the operation was ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC) - A doctor recently performed the first surgery of its kind in Iowa using new technology to treat atrial fibrillation at MercyOne Genesis. Dr. Mark Shen performed the surgery ...

ALBANY, N.Y (WNYT) — Albany Medical Center has performed the region’s first minimally invasive tricuspid valve replacement, benefiting patients with inoperable leaky heart valves. Doctors used the ...

Balloons and applause met Dr. Makoto Hashimoto as he arrived for his 100 th robotic cardiac surgery at Baptist Health Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute. The milestone—achieved just months after the ...

Today, Brooks Klingsporn is a happy 1-and-a-half-year-old baby. However, he's already had more heart surgeries than most people get in a lifetime — including one before he was even born. Last year, ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Some people who are special to us can oftentimes make us feel different things. Locke Keller's energy lights up a room — that's how his Mom, Mandy Keller, describes her bundle of ...

On the silver screen, Chris Pine has played heart-stopping action heroes. Now, as narrator of podcast series “Cardiac Cowboys,” he tells the true story of the renegade medical pros who risked their ...

CONCORD, N.H. — Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center doctors have a surprising new addition to their team of heart surgeons: a $2.5 million robot. By mid-August, the first two patients had undergone ...

Discover how St. Elizabeth is transforming heart surgery with 3D 4K endoscopy—offering safer, less invasive procedures and faster recovery. Heart surgery is rapidly changing and St. Elizabeth ...