Pioneer Heart Patient Marks Medical Fieldâs 30-Year History
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The first patient to receive an angioplasty paved the way for the 15 million patients to follow.
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Peter Cummins lay still as doctors administered 20 injections into the 81-year-old's calves and thighs, hoping the genetic experiment will spur new blood vessels to grow around his clogged leg arteries.    The experiment at the National Institutes of Health marks a resurgence in attempts to get the body to grow its own bypasses, at first in the legs and, if that works, perhaps later in the heart...
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Salim Yusuf crisscrossed the globe for nine years in his hunt for heart-attack causes. In Canada, his research had repeatedly found that certain ethnic groups seemed more susceptible to certain conditions, heart disease in particular.
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It was 77 degrees outside. Not a cloud in the sky. Just the sort of weekday that 65-year-old Ho-Mei Chen once imagined she'd be spending in the park with her grandchildren. Or on which 68-year-old hospital administrator Marie Warren once pictured herself tending to her begonias. Or on which...
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A patient in the US is the first in the country to receive a implant device that automatically detects early symptoms of congestive heart failure.
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NEW YORK - A well-wisher from Chicago hoped he would have a speedy recovery. An admirer who had just read his autobiography felt it was like having a friend in the hospital...
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Eddie Knipp's two heart transplants have given him the wisdom to savor the small wonders of life and the strength to endure one of its largest losses &#151; the death of a child. On Tuesday, Knipp and nine other heart transplant recipients celebrated more than 20 years of survival after surgery at the place that made it possible: the Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital.
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NEW YORK  - Blood vessel plaques and the  heart's pumping ability influence survival in people under 40  who've suffered a heart attack, new research shows.
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The doctors and nurses who for decades have staffed Greater Southeast Community Hospital remember when theirs was a premier institution, a source of pride and an anchor for Ward 8 and the neighborhoods beyond.
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By Dean Baker, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Jun. 3--Kate Rae is a registered nurse who has waited 29 years to become the farmer she always wanted to be.
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A new therapy shows glimpses of promise, but proving a benefit in heart patients could be hard.
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Three and a half months after Travis Marcusâ rapidly failing heart brought him near death at Arkansas Childrenâs Hospital, the 14-year-old walked out the hospitalâs front door Thursday with his new donor heart.
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A pioneer of heart transplants in Poland and a passionate European, Zbigniew Religa, 66, has turned his formidable energy to the political stage with a dream of building a modern Polish health service.
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Thomas O. Pyle, who built the Harvard Community Health Plan into one of the nationâs largest and most innovative health care providers, died Wednesday.
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Dr. Robert Jarvikâs newest heart device, the Jarvik 2000, holds the distinction of keeping a patient alive the longest. But it is facing competition.
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Donna Wilde has spent more than 35 years in the health-care industry without ever touching blood, body parts or a hospital bed. As a health-information manager, she can help doctors find better ways to treat patients or track a person&#39;s medical history.
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In todayÂs world of rapid-fire medicine, ÂinvolvedÂ relatives may be a patientÂs most important advocates.