Porter Stone is home recuperating after receiving a new heart. He became the subject of an Amber Alert after his father allegedly took him from a St. Louis hospital where he had been awaiting a transplant.

Brigham and Women's Hospital introduces the first total artificial heart implant patient in New England.

Brigham and Women's Hospital introduces the first total artificial heart implant patient in New England.

NEW BRITAIN — The Quartette Club’s third annual Charity Ride Sunday will benefit city resident Paul Dumais Jr., who recently received a new heart – brought on by his arduous battle a dozen years ago with cancer.

Five area residents are brought together by one thing: they are all heart transplant recipients.

A Duluth woman is finally getting the very rare organ transplant she needs to survive. Jessica Danielson has been waiting for a heart and liver transplant at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester since last December. There have only been 113 such operations in …

( University of California – Los Angeles Health Sciences ) New research by UCLA researchers and colleagues has found that heart transplant patients who develop restenosis after receiving a stent have poor long-term survival.

AS she laughs and plays with her big sister it’s hard to believe that it was only a few months ago Rachel Hooley was lying in a hospital bed, desperately needing a life-saving heart transplant.

MONTREAL , June 15, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ – he Montreal Children's Hospital of the McGill University Health Centre is pleased to report that 15-year old Vincent Lambert underwent a heart transplant operation …

Case is a first in Maryland A fist-sized contraption of plastic and metal kept 63-year-old Grant Feusner alive for five weeks earlier this year, pumping blood from his chest to his brain, kidneys and muscles. Doctors had removed most of Feusner's h…