By his fifth decade of life, Mayor Doug Vitale had faced more than a dozen surgeries, the first one as a 1-year-old baby, to ...

NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 8 – A new non-surgical heart procedure is proving to be a game changer, especially for patients with critical underlying conditions. Traditionally, such patients were treated ...

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“A heart murmur? How could I have a heart murmur? I didn’t think too much about it. But before they could do the surgery, they had to check with a cardiologist,” Lienau recalled. Back in ...

NEW YORK, Feb 6: From “mewing” and “slaying” to “sigma” and “rizz,” the lingo of Gen Alpha is baffling parents more than ever before. “When we had slang, there were only a few phrases that we had to ...

Cardiac muscle tissue, or myocardium, is a type of muscle tissue that forms the heart. It contracts and releases involuntarily and keeps the heart pumping blood around the body. The human body ...

‘Chemotherapy, surgery to remove my left breast and the affected lymph nodes, breast reconstruction and then radiotherapy – all in the space of a year – meant I had really been through the ...

The University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH) has provided free cardiac procedures to 22 patients, valued at over N10 million for each patient. The initiative, which took place in ...

Correspondence to Dr Kristian Kragholm, Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, Sdr. Skovvej 15, Aalborg 9000, Denmark; kdks{at}rn.dk ...

(Health First image) STS accreditation is “one of the most well-respected national grading systems for heart surgery available today,” according to cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Tamim Antaki BREV ...

Steve Schwarz, 67, underwent spinal surgery in March 2020 to treat back ... spread to the bloodstream and reach vital organs like the heart, where it can cause endocarditis — when the heart's ...

"For some time, the rock was displayed in the Gympie Civic Centre and it was then moved to the historical mining museum where it continues to baffle the public," Dr Brown said. So how did it end ...