A North Texas hospital is being credited with saving the life of a newborn baby from Georgia. After being turned away from ...

Eric Peck, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital, says the Alpha Vac system can cut heart patients' recovery time from months to hours. BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — Open heart ...

After six open-heart surgeries and a rare procedure, 13-year-old Aiden Jeffus now has a fully functioning heart and a future ...

Everly Backe, who was born with a congenital heart defect, was just 3 days old when she had her first open-heart surgery These parents found a very special way to honor their 4-year-old daughter.

My question is about the holidays, and it's two parts. The to-do list just seems to get longer each year, and I'm already ...

Since Elexa was the Free Care Fund Junior Co-Host in 2017, she's graduated high school and college and is now in medical school.

Four teams were assembled at Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute to save a mother. — -- In any emergency medical procedure, doctors are quick to make a plan and jump into action. But for the ...

Upper St. Clair students learn from a member of Allegheny General Hospital’s surgery team while surgeons perform open heart surgery, viewable up close on the screen. Dr. George Magovern, who pushed ...

Kimmel’s 7-year-old son Billy underwent his third open heart surgery last month. The lead surgeon who performed all three heart surgeries on Jimmy Kimmel’s son Billy at the Children’s Hospital Los ...

Open heart surgery is an incision that is made through the sternum, otherwise known as the breastbone, which is then spread apart. This form of opening is called a full or median sternotomy. Following ...