Thanks to Atrium Health Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute’s robust recruiting efforts, 40% of physicians hired at Sanger in the past three years are women. Meet three female cardiologists paving ...

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The second implantation, also in a male patient, was performed at Jewish Hospital in August. This third North American implantation is the first to involve a female patient.

Scientists (and sci-fi fans) have been talking about suspended animation for years. The idea that the functions of the human body can somehow be put on "pause" while life-saving medical procedures ...

W omen have a higher chance of surviving heart attacks when they are treated by female doctors over male doctors, a new study suggests. Mortality rates for women who undergo a traumatic event like ...

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That new lease on life, produced by a long overdue heart surgery. In 2016, doctors found a heart murmur, and by 2022 she was told she needed surgery. Six years had passed, and by then, things were ...

While it’s clear that male physicians are better at taking care of men with heart attacks than women, “it’s harder to tell if female physicians have no such gender disparity because their ...