For the first time ever, surgeons at National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) successfully performed a heart transplant in which the donor organ never stopped beating. This revolutionary procedure ...

She recalls that anxiety hung in the air once it became clear a donor was needed, though ...

A medical team at National Taiwan University Hospital reports that they’ve completed the first beating heart transplant—a procedure in which a donor heart experiences no reduced blood flow during ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sapporo University Professor Juro Wada examines Nobuo Miyazaki after Japan's first heart transplant operation at the Sapporo ...

In nearly 60 years, heart transplantation has transformed from a daring vision to an established surgical procedure. Since the first adult heart transplant in the United States was performed at ...

In a groundbreaking moment for American medicine, surgeons at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center have completed the first fully robotic heart transplant ever performed in the United States. In order to ...

Justin Cauthen, the first pediatric patient to undergo a heart transplant at a Long Island hospital, opened his eyes after seven hours in surgery and could finally breathe easy. "When I woke up after ...