In new procedure, human heart never stops pumping, from donor to recipient. Dec. 8, 2010— -- An experimental new heart transplant procedure could change the way transplants are performed in ...

Can we reboot the human heart? Yes, we can, and this could save many dying babies and adults who are waiting for a transplant ...

HEART disease is the number-one killer the world over and is particularly prevalent in T&T. As a result there is a high ...

In the nine-hour surgery, doctors replaced his heart with one from a 1-year-old, 240-pound pig gene-edited and bred specifically for this purpose. Bennett is breathing on his own without a ...

One of the first researchers to examine the possibility of discarding the heart-lung machine - in favor of beating-heart surgery - provides an insightful look at both the history and the future of ...

A new machine developed at North Carolina State University makes an animal heart pump much like a live heart after it has been removed from the animal's body, allowing researchers to expedite the ...

It may not have been put into practice just yet, but it looks like a new robotic-assisted system could one day let surgeons use a surgical robot (like Da Vinci system pictured at left) to operate ...

A team of surgeons at NYU Langone successfully transplanted genetically engineered pig hearts into two patients who had recently been declared deceased from brain death. The procedures, known as ...

The human heart beats 60 to 100 times a minute, more than 86,000 times a day, 35 million times a year. A single beat pushes about 6 tablespoons of blood through the body. An organ that works that ...

Dr. Julius Guccione, a 50-year-old cardiac researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, was mesmerized the first time he saw a virtual image of a beating heart. He'd been using math ...