Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It doesn't look like much, but Katrina Penney says she wouldn't be here today without a very small heart pump. Penney went into ...

Heart disease can leave a patient tied to a bed or a hospital room waiting on life, instead of living it. However, medical advances are giving people with heart disease a chance to live more freely - ...

Physicians at Emory University Hospital performed the first-ever surgical implantation in the United States of a brand-new type of heart pump designed to help save patients with heart failure, using a ...

NEW YORK -- In a first-of-its-kind procedure, a terminally ill patient has become the first person in the world to undergo a gene-edited pig kidney transplant and also have a mechanical heart pump ...

WAILUKU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The world’s smallest heart pump has made its way to Maui. Nine months after launching at Maui Memorial Medical Center, the island’s only acute-care hospital, it has saved ...

The newly studied heart pump device is the size of a AA battery. In this undated stock photo a Dr. listens with stethoscope. STOCK PHOTO/Getty Images New promising data finds that a small heart pump ...

The family of the first patient in Yorkshire to successfully receive one of the world's smallest artificial heart pumps has thanked doctors for "saving his life". John Barrass, 78, from Chesterfield, ...

A 54-year-old New Jersey grandmother was "days or weeks" from death earlier this month when she became the fourth person ever to receive an organ from a pig. Lisa Pisano was suffering from heart ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A miniaturized heart pump helped keep eight out of nine severely ill children alive long enough to receive a heart transplant, U.S. researchers said on Monday. Heart assist devices ...

In heart failure, the necessary oxygen levels and nutrients do not meet the body’s demands, setting off a domino effect of congestion in the lungs, kidneys and other areas. About 6.7 million adults in ...