"I would have advised him in return if he had needed a heart valve operation." On 3 December, 1967, Barnard made his way into history books by becoming the first surgeon in the world to transplant a ...

South African surgeon Dr. Christiaan Barnard of Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town performed the first heart transplant. He transplanted a 25-year-old’s heart into a 53-year-old grocer who was ...

of the first-ever face transplant at Mayo Clinic. The difficulty had to do with the many folks who needed to be happy with the book. It’s not just El-Hai and his readers, the people he has aimed ...

The first heart transplant ever performed in Virginia involved the heart of a local Black man that was taken without his ...

The transplant team at Tampa General Hospital hosted Tom Thrasher’s family to mark the first successful heart transplant in Florida.

Former Kansas basketball and NBA athlete Scot Pollard captured the attention of a nation with his heart transplant journey. ESPN’s E60 will have more.

Pollard took part in a special screening of "Heart of Pearl" Saturday at Flix Brewhouse in Carmel. The former Indiana Pacer and NBA champion has spent his post-basketball career raising awareness for ...

Doctors at the University of Maryland Medical Center made international news after completing the first successful heart transplant between a pig and a human last week. David Bennett, a 57-year ...

In the attached VIDEO REPORT, sports director Fletcher Mackel profiles Tulane University tennis head coach Mark Booras and his life-saving and life-changing heart transplant. Booras is on the road ...