Tyler Scarborough, an 8-year-old boy with congenital heart disease, is the focus of a local military family's efforts to raise awareness about the disorder. Tyl ...

Heart disease is a silent killer, the leading cause of death in the U.S., responsible for one in four deaths each year, ...

History was made after a team of surgeons successfully performed a pediatric partial heart transplant in Southern California for the first time. Ymiliano Hernandez, 12, was born with truncus ...

Growing up with a heart disease, Ashley Pecora never knew what her life was going to look like—until two years ago when she ...

"It hasn't been easy being a mom and dealing with grief ... I struggle with the question of 'How many kids do you have?' " Morgan Christofferson tells PEOPLE ...

Elon Musk's goal of reducing government waste can intersect with congressional Republicans' desperate efforts to cut spending ...

LOS ANGELES -- Shohei Ohtani said he is "on schedule" in his attempt to return as a two-way player this season, despite what he described as a "complicated surgery ... they'll open in Japan ...

That idea happens to be the basis of the Open Surgery achievement or trophy ... Moving to the upper body, you have the heart and lungs for options to shoot at. If you're looking at the enemy ...

When going through open-heart surgery, patients like Williams are often so concerned about the operation itself that they may not consider what recovery will be like. “Many of o ...

Taking steps to protect the eye and avoiding certain activities is important during recovery from cataract surgery. These include avoiding bending over and vigorous sneezing or coughing.

When skin is cut, as it is during surgery, it bleeds. This sets hemostasis, the process of stopping blood flow, into motion to prevent too much blood loss. Special blood cells called platelets are ...