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• Pediatric Heart Surgeons May Be Best Choice for Adults

  November 7 (HealthDay News) -- Pediatric heart surgeons may be the best choice for adults ...

• 'Scaffold' Could One Day Repair Damaged Hearts

  November 7 (HealthDay News) -- A biological scaffold that can help repair damaged hearts and ...

• Major Illnesses in U.S. Seniors Cost $196 Billion Annually

  October 30 (HealthDay News) -- In 2007, six major illnesses among Americans age 65 and ...

• 40 Years of Heart Transplants

  October 24 (HealthDay News) -- When Dr. Edward Stinson assisted during the world's first heart ...

• Heart Docs Often Fail to Order Tests Before Angioplasty

  October 14 (HealthDay News) -- More than half of Americans who undergo non-emergency artery-opening procedures ...

• A One-Man History of Cardiac Advances

  October 14 (HealthDay News) -- An 84-year-old New Jersey man is a living illustration of ...

• Embryonic Heart Shows Strong Capacity to Regenerate

  October 13 (HealthDay News) -- Healthy cells in an embryonic mouse heart can regenerate and ...

• Surgery Unneeded in Most Asymptomatic Carotid Stenosis Cases

  September 25 (HealthDay News) -- The risk of stroke has become so low for patients ...

• Survival Rate Little Changed with Aortic Valve Disorder

  September 16 (HealthDay News) -- Young adults with a congenital heart defect called a bicuspid ...

• An Oral Approach to Heart Disease

  September 11 (HealthDay News) -- Irish researchers are trying to develop a new way of ...

• New Type of Stent Appears Safe, Effective

  September 1 (HealthDay News) -- One of a "new generation" of artery-opening, drug-eluting stents appears ...

• New Test Identifies Heart Transplant Rejection

  August 27 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved AlloMap, a ...

• Infant Heart Transplant Controversy Continues

  August 13 (HealthDay News) -- Three new reports challenge current guidelines on how long after ...

• Researchers Test New Source for Blood Platelets

  July 31 (HealthDay News) -- A new and potentially better source of platelets (clot-forming blood ...

• Coronary Heart Disease Not a Cheery Condition

  July 14 (HealthDay News) -- A diagnosis of heart disease darkens a person's outlook on ...

• Get Healthy: Your Middle-Aged Heart Will Thank You

  July 7 (HealthDay News) -- Your diet isn't all that healthy, and you haven't been ...

• Opening Clogged Arteries Helps Women After Heart Attack

  July 1 (HealthDay News) -- Contradicting some earlier reports, a new study finds that women ...

• Drug-Coated Stents Reduce Repeat Artery Procedures

  June 24 (HealthDay News) -- Heart patients who got drug-coated stents did better than those ...

• New Source of Heart Stem Cells Found

  June 23 (HealthDay News) -- Newly-identified stem cells located on the surface of the heart ...