A Life-Saving Anniversary
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Fifty years ago, Ronald Herrick wasn&#39;t thinking about making medical history that would one day lead to saving countless lives.
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A man whose family has been hit by tragedy speaks of how he and his brother tried to save their brother's life.
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A chef who donated his bone marrow meets the American whose life he saved almost five years earlier.
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After 33 years of marriage, Ellie and Dan Tomczak have developed a nice symmetry. Five years ago, she received a donated kidney that saved her life, and three years later, he gave up one of his to save someone else&#39;s.
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NEW YORK  - In the month following the  September 11th, 2001 attacks, there was a spate of heart rhythm  disturbances in cardiac patients -- even those living far from  the disaster sites.
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Three years have passed since the 9/11 attacks. All over the world, people are remembering the attacks that took the lives of nearly 3,000 people.
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When Jose Luis Cabrera had coronary by-pass surgery after a heart attack five years ago, his wife had to bring food and clean sheets to him in the hospital. The operation itself didn't cost the Cuban couple a cent.
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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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A quiet revolution in the world of lung transplants is saving the lives of people who, just two years ago, would have died waiting.
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During a baseball game last June, 12-year-old Steven Domalewskiâs chest was hit by a ball struck with a metal bat, causing his heart to stop. His brain did not receive sufficient oxygen for 15 minutes.
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Ceremonies have been taking place to mark the third anniversary of the devastating Asian Tsunami.
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GREENSBURG, Ind. - A couple celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary took a different kind of plunge - from an airplane...
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Coworkers pay tribute to a devoted and thoughtful leader.
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It took a record nine months in intensive care at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, but a Kansas man will be back home Saturday, thanks to an experimental heart-assist device that keeps his heart pumping.
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By Mary Lane Gallagher, The Bellingham Herald, Wash.  Feb.
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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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Treating high blood pressure would save lives and pay for itself, experts said on Tuesday.