A writer explores how a Jewish ritual changed her relationship with mortality. I had a hole in my chest. Three weeks had passed since my open-heart surgery. My body was rejecting some of my stitches, ...

Since 2006, the Cares for Kids Radiothon has raised over $4.5 million for the MaineHealth Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital.

An Australian man lived for 100 days with an artificial titanium heart while he awaited a donor transplant, the longest ...

Now, a Chicago area artist shares her perspective: in pencil and paint. While her surgeon held a scalpel, Shar Coulson, in ...

The man, who was in his 40s and suffering from severe heart failure, was also the first person to leave the hospital with a titanium heart. He is recovering well after getting a new, donor heart ...

Metal scrap dealer Melvin Hoffman continues to work these days despite a serious health condition he was born with. Hoffman ...

Within three weeks of her surprise diagnosis, the little girl was in a hospital operating room undergoing open-chest heart ...

For many, the thought of heart bypass surgery comes with the fear of slowing down, giving up adventures, and leading a ...

Yale operates first the BATMAN procedure in CT, a less invasive heart treatment offering faster recovery and new hope for ...