Doctors at New York-Presbyterian performed an extremely rare surgery on Hend Almesafri, 10, John Catoliato, 2, and Teddy Carter, 3 -- changing their lives forever. It started with the gift of a single ...

New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health has received approval from the state health department to open a heart transplant center at Cohen Children’s Medical Center in Queens. The center will be the ...

SHREVEPORT, La. - Jess Migues of Stonewall has been fighting for her life since the day she was born. She is asking the ...

Allen Tumey's mom said it's been a journey of ups and downs. Her 8-year-old son is nonverbal and has spent most of his life ...

CLEVELAND (WJW) – After more than 200 days on a transplant list, an 11-year-old girl from Northeast Ohio finally got her miracle. Born with a serious heart defect, Ava Cooper endured four open-heart ...

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

In March 2025, surgeons at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center in Houston, Texas, performed the first fully robotic heart transplant to take place in the United States. The operation avoided a ...

A coronary artery bypass is one of several types of open-heart surgeries, which are major medical procedures. Open-heart surgery is a group of procedures that involve cutting through the breastbone to ...