More hospitals are looking to robotics as a way to enhance surgical programs and improve the quality of care patients receive ...

After six open-heart surgeries and a rare procedure, 13-year-old Aiden Jeffus now has a fully functioning heart and a future his family once feared he'd never see.

After eight years of training, Dr. Maureen McKiernan made her debut as the lead surgeon on an infant heart transplant — an ...

In March 2025, surgeons at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center in Houston, Texas, performed the first fully robotic heart transplant to take place in the United States. The operation avoided a ...

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 ...

An 11-year-old Ohio girl delivered the phone call of a lifetime, as she told her dad she was finally getting the heart transplant she'd been waiting for. Ava Cooper, who was born in 2014 with several ...

A Georgia family celebrates their first Christmas with baby Anna Claire after life-saving heart surgery at Cook Children's in ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — The most common type of birth defect in the U.S. are congenital heart defects, affecting around 40,000 births each year according to the CDC. Out of that group, about 25% of ...

Today, Brooks Klingsporn is a happy 1-and-a-half-year-old baby. However, he's already had more heart surgeries than most people get in a lifetime — including one before he was even born. Last year, ...

Santa made a long-awaited return to NYU Langone Hospital in Mineola on Dec. 17 after being a patient there just weeks ago.

Chicago Blackhawks captain Nick Foligno will take a brief leave of absence to be with his family as his daughter undergoes heart surgery, the team announced Wednesday. Foligno, in his third season ...