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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Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States are close to mending broken hearts. They have managed to create a small swatch of heart tissue that displays many of the hallmarks
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A patient in the US is the first in the country to receive a implant device that automatically detects early symptoms of congestive heart failure.
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By James Dowd dowd@commercialappealcom  A deep-seated faith expressed in a commitment to social justice marked the life and career of Dr. Ray Maxwell Allen, a man remembered by family and friends as a progressive thinker with a compassionate heart.
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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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Peter Houghton is grateful for his artificial heart. After all, it has saved his life.
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Patients who have benefited from donated organs were today celebrating 50 years since the worldâs first successful transplant operation.
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Patients with heart disease are being offered a  treatment with a difference - vibrating trousers.
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New Albany -- An Indiana man who lived with an artificial heart for 147 days has died, the heart manufacturer said Monday. Abiomed Inc.
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Doctors at what was then known as Peter Bent Brigham Hospital performed the world&#39;s first successful organ transplant. Ronald Herrick -- then 23 and a resident of Northboro -- donated one of his kidneys to
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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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Bill Clinton is a man close to 60, with a little pudge and a longtime love of junk food. That fits the stereotype for heart disease. Needing bypass surgery, however, suggests that the former president's disease is relatively extensive, and that's surprising for an active dignitary who presumably has top-notch and timely physical checkups.
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A Northern Ireland-born heart expert whose pioneering techniques saved countless lives dies at the age of 88.
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Donna Wilde has spent more than 35 years in the health-care industry without ever touching blood, body parts or a hospital bed. As a health-information manager, she can help doctors find better ways to treat patients or track a person&#39;s medical history.
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Day in and day out, for seven decades, brothers Robert and Gerald Cleveland have meticulously managed their blood glucose levels, fending off a disease that typically gives its victims just 20 or 30 years.
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A U.S. surgeon who implanted a nuclear-powered pacemaker into a 20-year-old woman in 1973 says the device is still going strong after 34 years and may have saved money over the long run.
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A former heart patient, a courageous lady bidding to make history and a 3-year-old who can go from spoiler to champion provide some of the appealing elements