The incidence of cardiovascular disease is rising across the globe, with more than 28 million people worldwide living with ...

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 ...

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 ...

The first transplant surgery to combine a mechanical heart pump as well as a gene-edited pig kidney has been completed at NYU Langone Health, the system said Wednesday. The subject, 54-year-old Lisa ...

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 ...