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 ...

You know the feeling. When you first see your crush and your head starts spinning, your palms get sweaty, and your heart begins beating a mile a minute. Is this love? Or is it … an arrhythmia? The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Read full article: Yes, allergy season is getting longer – here’s why A doctor listens to a woman's lungs. Read full article: 5 reasons nonsmokers get diagnosed with lung cancer The control screen of ...

" I know a part of Melody lives on in Peyton." — -- A grieving mother has met the child whose life was saved thanks to the donation of her little girl's heart. Mothers Amber Travaglio and Ashlyn ...

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 ...

MINNEAPOLIS — The pink, white and red blob of tissue quivers in a vat of clear goop about the size of a kitchen sink. Graduate students whiz around this slimy beating heart and crawl under the tubes ...

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 ...

Following the death of Frédéric Chopin in Paris in 1849, and in accordance with the composer’s wishes, his heart was removed and sealed in a jar of cognac. A few months later, fulfilling his precise ...

In Japan, you can set your watch by the arrival of a train. “Delays” (if that’s the word) tend to be calculated in seconds – not minutes or hours. “This precision results from a combination of ...