After undergoing two open-heart surgeries in a year, a local elite runner is thanking the staff who saved him and is hoping ...

PANJWANI: I’m Haya Panjwani. On this episode of The Story Behind the AP Story, we hear from Lauren Neergaard and Shelby Lum, ...

We're continuing our week-long celebration of National Volunteer Month, and tonight's story shows a couple turning personal ...

In March, two biotechnology companies were given the greenlight by the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, to conduct ...

Among these, heart valve disease is a key contributor ... 2.Tissue Valves - Bioprosthetic valves, made from bovine or porcine tissue, are less durable but typically do not require long-term ...

A medical team at the Amsterdam University Medical Centre (AUMC) in the Netherlands completed the first-in-human ventricular ...

We get heart valves from pigs. We get skin grafts from ... They look exactly like what you would think of a normal pig to look like. The pigs at the research farm are used for some of the early ...