Recent findings may be relevant to discussions with patients and their families about the pros and cons of cardiac surgery.

You're getting heart surgery, but your surgeon notices a new anomaly that perhaps could be fixed at the same time. That's more likely to happen if you're a man than a woman, new studies find. The ...

Elizabeth Cooney is a cardiovascular disease reporter at STAT, covering heart, stroke, and metabolic conditions. You can reach Liz on Signal at LizC.22. They call it “failure to rescue,” which means a ...

In recognition of International Women’s Day, Allegheny General Hospital welcomed local high school students to observe an all-female surgical team. On Monday, students from Avonworth High School who ...

One in five older adults gets an infection up to six months after heart surgery - with women far more likely to develop one, according to studies led by Michigan Medicine. The two studies examined ...

The Grammy winner had heart surgery in June 2020. One year after discovering she had a rare heart condition which required open-heart surgery to fix, singer Amy Grant said she feels "fantastic." "I ...

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A new study from the Journal of the American Heart Association (JAHA) found that men die from a condition known as “broken heart syndrome” at more than twice the rate that women do. Broken heart ...