WASHINGTON (AP) — Most transplanted hearts are from donors who are brain dead, but new research shows a different approach can be just as successful and boost the number of available organs. It’s ...

Sometimes, the straightforward and conventional approaches only treat symptoms, ignoring the root cause. Heart diseases stand at the pedestal as the number one killer in the world. Dr Jack Wolfson is ...

It was moments with his kids that made Jason Banner decide to take a chance on a new method of heart transplantation. The single father of two discovered in 2005 he had a genetic heart condition. Last ...

Until recently, if a heart stopped beating, it couldn’t be donated. Donor hearts typically come from patients determined to be brain dead, from which doctors can extract the beating organ and ...

University of Missouri researchers have developed a new way to study heart valve stiffness. Heart valve stiffness is caused by build up of calcium in the heart, which can make the heart pump blood ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON (AP) — Most transplanted hearts ...