The teen had traveled from Chicago as part of a Make-a-Wish Foundation trip for his cousin, who has sickle cell anemia. The first full day, the family went on a boat trip and got shaved ice, but on ...

Despite the constant pressures, the Mercilles always found a way to keep going—until a single moment three weeks ago changed ...

The man, who was diagnosed with congestive heart failure nearly a year ago, believes the decision is based on his vaccination status.

Ken Long, 54, has claimed he was denied a heart transplant at The Christ Hospital in Cincinnati because he refused to take a ...

A heart can never rest. That creates a problem for a heart that has lost muscle tissue. “Skeletal muscle has a significant ...

Community Medical Center recently held a celebration for patients who have lived ten years on a mechanical heart pump called LVAD. Not long ago, it would have ...

Stanford University Medical Center has received some recent press coverage centered around a controversial decision to provide a heart transplant ... not undergone a left ventricular assist ...

It's his right,' she said. So instead of giving him a heart transplant, doctors put Ken under emergency surgery to install a left ventricular assist device to pump blood to his heart. But while ...

Doctors told the family that Landon would need a heart transplant and in the meantime, the doctors said that Landon will require both a left and right ventricular assist device. "It's a lot to ...