Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When a patient has severe heart failure, the heart isn’t strong enough to pump blood throughout the body. A patient with severe ...

When children with heart failure await transplants, they typically stay at the hospital for months to years, tethered to a bulky blood-pumping device. But an implantable heart pump could allow them to ...

ATLANTA - Doctors at Emory University Healthcare made history by becoming the first group in the U.S. to successfully implant a new experimental heart pump designed to help patients dealing with heart ...

A 54-year-old New Jersey woman has become the second living person to receive a genetically engineered pig kidney. The surgery, carried out at NYU Langone Health on April 12, also involved ...

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 ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – UR Medicine is celebrating a milestone of performing its 1,000th life-saving heart pump surgery. The pumps, also known as LVADs, are given to people experiencing severe heart failure ...

Surgeons at New York City-based NYU Langone Health performed the first combined mechanical heart pump and organ transplant surgery and implanted the second gene-edited pig kidney in the world. The ...

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 ...

When a patient has severe heart failure, the heart isn’t strong enough to pump blood throughout the body. A patient with severe heart failure may need a new heart from a donor to replace the bad heart ...