VALHALLA, Westchester County (WABC) -- Ricardo Acuna has a simple message for the organ donor who gave him a second chance at life. "Thank you for the new heart," he said. The 62 year old is the ...

A medical team at National Taiwan University Hospital reports that they’ve completed the first beating heart transplant—a procedure in which a donor heart experiences no reduced blood flow during ...

A new transplant procedure could be the answer to enhancing access and successful outcomes for patients in need of a new heart. Known as a beating-heart transplant, the process reduces the times a ...

DETROIT, Michigan (WXYZ) -- Ferndale's Ken Miller is now the recipient of the first beating heart transplant in Michigan history. Not only that, he's now one of the ...

SEATTLE — Deep in a chest opened by surgical saw and knife, a scalpel carefully cuts a tiny hole in a major artery on the side of the beating heart. Blood spews in a pencil-lead-thin stream but stops ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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. ST. LOUIS – Heart disease remains a leading ...

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: Now, nearly half of all heart bypass patients suffer a drop in brainpower -- help me ...

PITTSBURGH (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- As many as half a million people in the U.S. undergo coronary artery bypass surgery every year -- but some older patients, or those with other medical conditions, may ...

RACINE -Ê Within a few hours of heart surgery last week, 68-year-old Barna Bencs of Racine was back on his feet at St. Mary's Medical Center, amazed at how good he felt. He and his family weren't the ...

Tucked in the basement of the Mayo Building on the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus sits a detached, beating pig’s heart floating in clear liquid. Graduate and undergraduate students ...

DETROIT (WXYZ) — Ferndale's Ken Miller is now the recipient of the first beating heart transplant in Michigan history. Not only that, he's now one of the few people ...