For most of history, the human heart has been regarded as ... This kind of blind surgery—or closed heart surgery—spread to hospitals around the world. Impressive as the technique was, it ...

Scientists have unveiled the smallest pacemaker ever, the size of a grain of rice, which provides a temporary solution for ...

Max will undergo surgery at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Heart Institute to replace his pulmonary valve with an adult-sized human valve, or a manmade tissue valve. This type of valve can last ...

said Alexander McLeish Maria Pasquini is the staff editor for human interest’s digital vertical at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2017. While recovering from heart surgery ...

Edwards saw the human heart as a pump, too ... but he didn’t,” said OHSU emeritus professor of surgery, Dr. Richard Mullins. “The two had a conversation.” Starr convinced Edwards they ...

Lasting up to seven hours (and sometimes longer), the surgery is time-consuming and ... good idea of what's involved in taking the heart of one human and making it work in another.

The patient, who was in his 40s, volunteered to undergo a 6-hour surgery to receive a BiVACOR ... at regular intervals—just like a regular human heart would. The patient remained in the hospital ...

Scientists have developed the world's smallest pacemaker, a light-controlled heartbeat regulator that is smaller than a grain ...

It also shows how the pacemaker cells restart her heart after the surgery. This short film is from the BBC series, Inside the Human Body. The 3D footage brings the topic to life and would enhance ...