Four months and five days after WBZ-TV assignment editor Andrea Courtois donated her kidney​ to photojournalist Jared ...

New medical advancements are making surgery less invasive for those with Aortic Valve Disease. When the aortic heart valve ...

A South Florida boy is back on the baseball field after doctors used virtual reality technology to treat a complex heart ...

FOR THE FIRST time, doctors have successfully completed a coronary artery bypass without cutting the patient open. They recently documented the results of the landmark surgery in Circulation: ...

A life-saving heart procedure offering an alternative to traditional open-heart surgery is now available to patients in Palm Beach County — and even more remarkably, the surgeons behind it are a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. AUSTIN (KXAN) — The vertical scar on Anastasia Allen’s chest comes with more history than the 38-year-old would hope. Ten years ...

Stepping back into competitive sports after heart surgery sounds understandable, but for these athletes, it’s just part of their medical history. They dealt with heart murmurs, valve replacements, and ...

As a super-fit Olympic medallist, I always felt a bit of a fraud as I sat in the cardiology unit waiting for my annual check-up, surrounded by people who were clearly very ill. I was 11 when I was ...

EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — It’s a serious heart defect that can cause blood to flow into the wrong part of the heart chamber, and up until recently, it required open heart surgery to fix. But now ...

MEDICAL REPORTER MINDY BECERRA JOINS US WITH ONE YOUNG GIRL’S STORY. MINDY. ASHLEY. ONE CONGENITAL HEART DEFECT IS WHAT’S COMMONLY CALLED A HOLE IN THE HEART. OFTEN CHILDREN HAVE NO SYMPTOMS, BUT IF ...

Millie was born with a congenital heart defect and has to quarantine to avoid getting sick before having major heart surgery.

When medications aren’t doing enough to manage your hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), surgical procedures can offer real relief. HCM is a genetic heart condition in which parts of the heart muscle ...