Pioneer Heart Patient Marks Medical Fieldâs 30-Year History
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The first patient to receive an angioplasty paved the way for the 15 million patients to follow.
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Doctors marvel that Tony Huesman is still among the living. The suburban Washington Township man has defied the odds, living longer with a single transplanted heart than anyone else.
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When Joan Irvine's husband collapsed in July from heart problems, he was rushed to Montgomery General Hospital. There, he was admitted not by the family's primary care doctor but by a hospitalist, one of a growing breed of physicians specializing in inpatient care.
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Dr. Robert Jarvikâs newest heart device, the Jarvik 2000, holds the distinction of keeping a patient alive the longest. But it is facing competition.
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By Michelle E. Shaw, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Dec. 19--Noreen Buckley, a 58-year-old patient at Beach Health Clinic in Virginia Beach, takes five medications routinely.
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It was 77 degrees outside. Not a cloud in the sky. Just the sort of weekday that 65-year-old Ho-Mei Chen once imagined she'd be spending in the park with her grandchildren. Or on which 68-year-old hospital administrator Marie Warren once pictured herself tending to her begonias. Or on which...
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By Hanah Cho, The Baltimore Sun  Sep. 17--At St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore, heart attack patients are receiving faster treatment.
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Given medical advances, it&#39;s no wonder that heart disease patients expect doctors to address coronary problems with drugs, medical devices or both.
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'He is stable now. He experienced chest pain due to exertion and high blood pressure but that has now been brought under control through medicines,' a doctor said.q
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A heart patient who had muscle cells transferred from his leg to his heart makes good progress.
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Description: On Dec. 23, 1954, Boston doctors gave a kidney to a 23-year-old man in the first successful long-term transplant of a human organ.
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Blood vessel plaques and the heart's pumping ability influence survival in people under 40 who've suffered a heart attack, new research shows.
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By Dean Baker, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Jun. 3--Kate Rae is a registered nurse who has waited 29 years to become the farmer she always wanted to be.
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There was a time when Michael Saag thought he would be content to be a cardiologist, helping heart attack victims and people with heart conditions.
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She was overweight, physically inactive, a 23-year-old with a family history of heart disease and Type 2 diabetes. &quot;Just walking up the stairs was tough,&quot; she says.
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Salim Yusuf crisscrossed the globe for nine years in his hunt for heart-attack causes. In Canada, his research had repeatedly found that certain ethnic groups seemed more susceptible to certain conditions, heart disease in particular.
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Surprising new research suggests that even people who develop heart disease or diabetes late in life have a decent shot at reaching the century mark