Recently, 12 students from West Shamokin High School’s AP Biology and Anatomy classes traveled to Allegheny General Hospital ...

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 ...

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 ...

The first time Mesfin Yana Dollar assisted with an open-heart surgery, his patient was a teenage girl from Ethiopia. She was scared and crying. He went to her bedside at Emory University Hospital in ...

Fear, anxiety, anger, sadness, and confusion are just a few of the emotions patients and their caregivers navigate before, during, and after open-heart surgery. “The emotional and mental health ...

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

A local Air Force veteran in Naples made an impressive recovery after undergoing life-saving open-heart surgery. Less than five weeks later, he is back on his feet. Tim Guerrette, a retired Air Force ...

Petersburg, Va.-based Southside Regional Medical Center has received state approval to open an open-heart surgery program that would provide bypass surgery and heart valve repair services, according ...