A nurse-led initiative at a Denver hospital led to fewer complications for female patients recovering from open-heart surgery and decreased the wound incidence rate following sternotomies from 6.4% to ...

Surgeons have performed the first fully robotic heart transplant in the U.S., using advanced robotic tools to avoid opening ...

Case 2. In May, 1962, a 39-year-old Negro prison inmate (M.C.H. 79475) was stabbed in the chest during a riot. The weapon, which resembled an ice pick, entered the 4th left intercostal space near ...

Heart disease is expected to affect 61% of US adults by 2050, so it’s important to know when problems may be afoot.. Leg pain, cramps and lingering foot wounds are among the symptoms that may ...