An 11-year-old boy recently became the first person in the world to have an artificial heart valve replaced with a living donor heart valve. Preston Porter, who has lived for the past near-decade with ...

Climbing the stairs to the top of the former John Hancock Center is a feat unto itself, but Laura Valentine did it just months after undergoing a very complicated double organ transplant. Earlier this ...

Surgeons at Tampa General Hospital successfully performed the world’s first known bloodless heart and liver transplant on May 31. Doctors said the nine-hour operation was possible through close ...

First life support, then a heart transplant. The family of a local 2-year-old is seeking help from the community as their baby recovers.

Former NBA player and Survivor contestant Scot Pollard is opening up about the moment he met the family of his donor heart. The 50-year-old — who spent 11 seasons with the NBA — underwent a heart ...

Piedmont Atlanta surgeons performed Georgia’s second-ever dual liver-heart transplant, the first in a decade. Only 50 such surgeries have been done across the Southeast, according to UNOS. Piedmont ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — February is for the heart. This Friday is Valentine's Day, and all month long is American Heart Month. For some, like Grand Rapids native Tracy Meier, this month signifies ...

David KC Cooper, Global Cardiology Science & Practice 2018, CC BY 4.0 Organ transplants today are a life-saving option that offers many people a solution to damaged or unhealthy organs including the ...