Wed, May 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM UTC In the U.S. alone, nearly 3,800 people are on the waiting list for heart transplant, but as Yale Medicine notes, demand for healthy hearts currently outstrips supply ...

The vast majority of organ donations once came from people who were brain-dead. Now they’re increasingly coming from people who died when their heart stopped beating, a major shift that can boost ...

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For the first time, surgeons have successfully performed a remarkable new heart transplant in which the donor organ never skips a beat in the process, reducing the damage that can occur during such a ...

For the first time ever, surgeons at National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) successfully performed a heart transplant in which the donor organ never stopped beating. This revolutionary procedure ...

A new transplant procedure could be the answer to enhancing access and successful outcomes for patients in need of a new heart. Known as a beating-heart transplant, the process reduces the times a ...

Emmy Award-winning reporter Charles Gomez’s latest story comes with a twist: It’s about the extraordinary heart transplant that saved his life. The 70-year-old Manhattan man, sitting in the living ...

Listen carefully when Jotaka Eaddy speaks, and you hear her heart pulsating to the beat of a hollow gourd. It keeps rhythm with Ysaye Barnwell of Sweet Honey and the Rock tapping out “Ella’s Song.” ...

Scientists have created a three-dimensional "heart-on-a-chip" (HOC) that could provide a breakthrough in the fight against the world's leading cause of death, cardiovascular disease. One major ...