ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) – The cardiology team at URMC announced their recent achievement of providing their 1000th Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) to a patient in need. Jessica Driffill of ...

Despite making up half of the 64 million people living with heart failure, patients with this common form have no access to ...

Robert Montgomery, MD, DPhil, (left) the H. Leon Pachter, MD, Professor and chair of the Department of Surgery and director of the NYU Langone Transplant Institute, and Jeffrey Stern, MD, assistant ...

Sue Baker was used to spending time in the hospital. She had started having heart troubles in 2015, and as the issue escalated, she spent more and more time in the hospital. She had a pacemaker ...

Former US Vice President Dick Cheney, who died on 3 November aged 84, lived far longer than most people with such an ...

In heart failure, the necessary oxygen levels and nutrients do not meet the body’s demands, setting off a domino effect of congestion in the lungs, kidneys and other areas. About 6.7 million adults in ...

So much of the news is about what’s happening at the moment. But after a major event, people pick up the pieces, and life goes on. In this new series, The Straits Times talks to the everyday heroes ...