Transit Officer Paul DeGeorge thought his son was lying on him. Then he realized something much scarier was happening.

Open heart surgery requires cutting open your chest to access and repair your heart. This is an extensive surgery that may last as long as 3-5 hours. Recovery from open heart surgery may take 4-6 ...

The mere idea of heart surgery is enough to give anyone the shakes. Open-heart surgery used to be hard years ago. It had a long incision down the chest, weeks in the hospital, and a difficult recovery ...

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 ...

Alaric, born with several congenital heart defects, is a "super-bright" boy, his parents say.

GOOCHLAND, Va. (WWBT/Gray News) - A 7-year-old Virginia girl is thriving months after undergoing open-heart surgery for a congenital heart defect. Millie Haenlein, a second grader at Goochland ...

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (Valley News Live) - February is American Heart Month. The goal is raising awareness that heart disease is the leading cause of death in the US, and it’s largely preventable. Valley ...