Watching his daughter grow up. Helping her compete in sports. Guiding her down the aisle on her wedding day. Alan Coon wasn't sure he would be able to experience these milestones of life after receiving his first heart transplant May 24, 1987, at P…
Dalton Igoe, 15, took a few steps in his hospital room since receiving a heart transplant, his aunt said Monday. "He won't take pain medicine," Carol McMahon Confer said. She doesn't know the reaso.
Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego intends to raise its national profile by launching a heart transplant program this year after completing a nationwide search for a surgeon to oversee the effort and raising $1.5 million to cover startup costs.
Statins prevent cancer and reduce death from all causes in heart transplant recipients. The findings were independent of cholesterol levels.
Allie Weese, 24, received a heart from a Fresno man back in 2009, and then started exchanging letters with his family. Details about the donor are being kept private, but Saturday Weese met with his family members — where she once again, thanked them …
Family and friends came together Saturday to raise money as Andrew Hagewood continues to recover from a heart transplant that saved his life.
An Altoona boy who has battled a congenital heart defect was to receive a heart transplant early today. Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh staff called the Igoe family at 11:30 a.m. Friday and began preparing an operating room for Dalton Igoe, 15.
It's often difficult for those needing transplants of any type. The waiting can oftentimes take years. When a student at the Pleasant Valley school district was recently placed on a heart transplant list, his school district wanted to help take s…
An Altoona Area Junior High School student is on his way to Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh for a heart transplant. Dalton Igoe, 15, received the call at 11:30 a.m. Friday, his mother, Dawn, told the Mirror.
NORTH ANDOVER — Ryan Naismith of North Andover doesn't seem like a candidate for a heart transplant. He played rugby at Northeastern University and always kept himself in top-notch physical condition.