A year after doctors at Duke Health transplanted some valves and arteries into the heart of a sick child, they announced success on Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The hope ...

Darrell Dixon’s father was just 25 when he had a major heart attack in the rural Mississippi Delta. By his early 40s, a series of additional attacks had left his heart muscle too weak to pump enough ...

Heart attacks trigger a cascade of reactions in the body, and certain immune cells may worsen the damage by disrupting heart ...

Routine eye exams are now revealing early signs of heart disease. The retina's delicate blood vessels can show changes like ...

The primary symptom of a heart attack is pain or discomfort in the center of the chest, Dr. Lloyd-Jones said. All the experts described the feeling as if an elephant were sitting on your chest. This ...

Show documents the journey through surgery and recovery from a patient’s point of view. Tony Mussari was filming the 2007 Memorial Day Parade in Kingston when he felt a pain in his chest – a pain that ...