Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An 11-year-old boy recently became the first person in the world to have an artificial heart valve replaced with a living donor ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 12, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- An 11-year-old boy is the first in the world to have an artificial heart valve replaced with a live tissue valve from a donated heart through a ...

Credit: Getty Images A discussion of the history and future of artificial heart technology with Dr Francisco Arabia and Dr Jack Renfrew’s experience with an artificial heart transplant. In May 2025, ...

He was supposed to be having an aortic valve replacement in Las Vegas. But Chuck Besen woke up after surgery to find himself in Tucson — without a heart. And Besen's long medical journey had only ...

Doctors from Duke Health have reported a medical breakthrough in which an infant that underwent what they say is the "world's first partial heart transplant" has not only survived but is thriving, one ...

As a rule, the stories in our "following up" series look back at previous articles from Goats and Soda. But when freelance journalist Ruchi Kumar pitched the idea of following up on media coverage of ...