After the Van Vliet family lost their home in a fire, residents of Homewood, Flossmoor and Chicago Heights have helped them ...

Heart transplant is a scary and serious surgery with a high cost, but for patients with heart failure it can be the only ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI - Last spring, Grand Rapids resident Tracy Meier was getting ready to book a flight to head to a Grand Rapids Griffins game in Chicago after winning a “fan flyaway” contest.

Meier is nearly a year out of a heart transplant surgery at Corewell Health, where Cardiologist Dr. Milena Jani says they expect a 100% survival rate post-surgery. Dr. Jani says the overall ...

He underwent three open-heart ... transplant. After 10 months in the hospital and three agonizing false alarms, a suitable heart arrived. On Nov. 1, after 10 hours of preparation and surgery ...

Health authorities said on Monday that thanks to a cross-border organ donation, an eight-month-old girl underwent a successful heart transplant ... of the Cardiothoracic Surgery of HKCH, Dr ...

A cardiac surgery and heart failure team at the University of Michigan implanted a novel mechanical heart pump into a patient as part of a clinical trial that will compare it to the only device ...

Her family claims she was denied a heart transplant because she is not vaccinated against COVID-19. Adaline Deal, a 12-year-old girl from Indiana and a distant relative of Vice President JD Vance ...

CHICAGO - This Valentine’s Day, we heard from a woman who recently underwent a rare dual organ transplant. Doctors gave Laura Valentine a new heart and liver. Valentine, 35, was born with only half a ...

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A 12-year-old Indiana girl was denied a heart transplant because she was not vaccinated against COVID-19 and flu. Adaline, a distant relative of US Vice President JD Vance, was adopted from China.