Women with severe coronary heart disease causing narrowing or blockages in the arteries may derive greater long-term benefits from coronary artery bypass grafting compared with percutaneous coronary intervention,

A Georgia family celebrates their first Christmas with baby Anna Claire after life-saving heart surgery at Cook Children's in Fort Worth, a procedure other hospitals wouldn't attempt.

What’s more moving than an acceptance speech at the Grammy Awards for a Grammy-winning song? A gift of one million dollars in honor of a man’s fight for his life. Singer songwriter Taylor Swift has made her family’s private crisis in the area of their health a gift to the American Heart Association by pledging

Santa made a long-awaited return to NYU Langone Hospital in Mineola on Dec. 17 after being a patient there just weeks ago.

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.

Robotic heart surgery is a technique that uses small chest incisions and precise surgical tools that are controlled by a robot. It allows our heart surgeons to perform cardiac surgeries through less invasive means than techniques that use a large incision.

Heart valves can be replaced with open heart surgery or with less invasive procedures that don’t require your chest to be opened. Known as transcatheter valve replacement, this type of procedure has fewer risks and a faster recovery time. Share on ...

The goal of heart valve surgery is to repair or replace a malfunctioning heart valve to prevent the development of life-threatening conditions. Valves are one-way gates in the heart that keep blood flowing between the four chambers of the heart. There are ...

For the first time in the Balkans and the wider region, a robot-assisted heart surgery was performed at the "Dedinje" Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases in Belgrade.