The lungs that Dr. Ankit Bharat took out of Tadd Crosslin, a 49-year-old father of twins, were marred with billions of cancer cells. They were “perhaps the most diseased that we’ve ever seen,” said ...

Speaker podiums and tables reserved for moderators had new paperwork waiting for delegates attending the Society of Thoracic ...

AIIMS to launch a neurotechnology facility with the Vattikuti Foundation, featuring non-invasive MRgFUS treatment for ...

Patients aged between 50 to 70 years with a mechanical heart valve replacement had better long-term survival compared to ...

Next-generation sequencing, proteomics analysis, and circulating tumor DNA demonstrate how precision medicine advances ...

Growing up with a heart disease, Ashley Pecora never knew what her life was going to look like—until two years ago when she ...

A groundbreaking study revealed that platelet distribution width (PDW) could be used as a useful non-invasive biomarker for ...

Rocco Pagliocca played a few minutes off the bench on Dec. 17, just 20 days after surgery, and hit four straight free throws ...

Silver Cross Hospital in New Lenox recently received a three-star rating from The Society of Thoracic Surgeons.

Despite guideline recommendations, the use of bioprosthetic heart valves has surpassed mechanical valves, but data from a large surgical database may lead to a reassessment of that practice.

More than half the patients awaiting cardiac surgery have waited too long, the latest statistics show. People accepted for ...