Mount Sinai Transplant Surgeon Dr. Sandy Florman says Godbee's surgery was the first heart-liver-kidney transplant in New York and took about 22 hours to complete.

The Heart Knows (now on Netflix) is a tug-your-heartstrings romance that’s literally about hearts: Benjamin Vicuna plays a ...

Dr. Robert Jarvik, who was a key designer of the first permanent artificial heart implanted in a human, died on Monday in his ...

The Jarvik-7 artificial heart, made of aluminum and plastic, was implanted in 1982 in a retired Des Moines, Wash., dentist, Barney Clark. He lived for 112 days.

New technology being used right here in South Florida is increasing the amount of successful organ transplants.

Among patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension treated with selexipag, the 10-year survival rate was 60%, according to ...

He worked with a team at the University of Utah to design the first permanent artificial heart implanted in a human.

He worked with a team at the University of Utah to create a mechanical heart. It was later used in patients awaiting an organ ...

One of the most enduring dreams in medicine is not simply to live longer, but to live better — into old age without the ...

A relatively new therapy used to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension in those with mild to moderate disease was found to be effective at preventing death in those with more advanced disease.

Researchers engineered a new therapeutically enhanced, naturally derived particle for powerful gene therapies to tackle our ...

Cardiovascular disease and kidney disease are two of the most urgent issues in global public health. In the United States ...