ATLANTA - Doctors at Emory University Healthcare made history by becoming the first group in the U.S. to successfully implant a new experimental heart pump designed to help patients dealing with heart ...

WASHINGTON — A woman who received a pig kidney transplant — along with an implanted device to keep her heart beating – has died, her surgeon announced Tuesday. Lisa Pisano was near death from kidney ...

NEW YORK — Doctors have transplanted a pig kidney into a New Jersey woman who was near death, part of a dramatic pair of surgeries that also stabilized her failing heart. Lisa Pisano’s combination of ...

Despite making up half of the 64 million people living with heart failure, patients with this common form have no access to heart pump treatments and are left with only medication or palliative care.

Doctors at Emory University Hospital have made history by becoming the first group in the U.S. to successfully implant a new experimental heart pump that is designed to help patients dealing with ...

just named winner of NASA’s Commercial Invention of the Year Award. Also known as a ‘ventricular assist device’ (VAD), the pump is currently undergoing human trials with patients awaiting heart ...