The heart is the body's hardest-working muscle. Whether you're awake or asleep, or exercising or resting, your heart is always at work. It pumps blood through arteries to deliver oxygen to organs ...

HEART disease is the number-one killer the world over and is particularly prevalent in T&T. As a result there is a high ...

Inspired by ECMO life support, NTUH’s organ care system keeps the heart pumping outside the body using a system of pumps, oxygenators and reservoirs. During the first surgery, the team ...

The major breakthrough is that the donor heart—which came from a 35-year-old male who experienced brain death after complications during cerebellar tumor surgery—never experienced cardioplegia ...

PITTSBURGH (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- As many as half a million people in the U.S. undergo coronary artery bypass surgery every year -- but some older patients, or those with other ...

People across the United States have endured rushed or premature attempts to remove their organs. Some were gasping, crying ...

Beating the odds, his doctors said the surgery had been a success. “I could see the relief in his parent's eyes, and I don't forget those things," Quader said.

Once the heart-on-a-chip system was on board the ISS, Kim and his colleagues used sensors to monitor the strength of the tissues’ contraction and beating patterns in real time.