A writer explores how a Jewish ritual changed her relationship with mortality. I had a hole in my chest. Three weeks had passed since my open-heart surgery. My body was rejecting some of my stitches, ...

The recipient underwent a six-hour operation in November, surviving on the artificial heart for over 100 days until a donor ...

The chances were slim, and the wait was long, but Scarlett Grace Rodriguez is home and healing, and so is her family.

Before 7-month-old Annie was born she was diagnosed with a rare heart condition, requiring a complicated surgery in order to ...

An Australian man lived for 100 days with an artificial titanium heart while he awaited a donor transplant, the longest ...

A groundbreaking heart procedure at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital has made Maryland history. Joan Mertz, 83, became the first patient in the state to undergo an artificial heart valve replacement ...