In the 1950s, open-heart surgery had a 50 percent mortality rate. Today it is less than 1 percent. Jean-Sebastien Evrard/AFP via STAT News My heart was breaking, but not from lost love.

Heart attacks increase heart failure risk. Dr. Teuteberg believes cardiac attacks damage the heart, making it pump less ...

Within three weeks of the diagnosis, Millie was in the operating room at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C., for open-chest heart surgery. “My little girl was on bypass.

GOOCHLAND, Va. (WWBT/Gray News) - A 7-year-old Virginia girl is thriving months after undergoing open-heart surgery for a congenital heart defect. Millie Haenlein, a second grader at Goochland ...