This photo was taken after the surgery to correct the bleed on Poppy McGee’s brain last year. She is in the center in the front, in her wheelchair. Mollie is to her left, along with Mollie’s daughter, ...

Taylor resident Charlotte Wells is a heart surgery pioneer. At age 10 in 1956, she had open-heart surgery to repair a congenital hole in her heart and was one of the first children nationally to get ...

Women over the age of 65 who require complex heart surgery are more likely than men to receive care at low quality hospitals - where they also die in greater numbers following the procedure, a ...

For many patients, the fear of open-heart surgery keeps them off the operating table. But doctors say a coronary artery bypass is life-changing — and so is the lesser-known and less-invasive technique ...

Women age 65 or older who underwent coronary artery bypass grafting, have a higher mortality rate than men and are more likely to be treated at “low-quality hospitals”, according to a national study ...

In a surgical first, doctors have replaced a heart valve through a small neck incision using robotic assistance, avoiding the need to open the chest. The pioneering procedure, performed at the ...

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