After eight years of training, Dr. Maureen McKiernan made her debut as the lead surgeon on an infant heart transplant — an ...

The mother credits "mama's intuition" for knowing something was wrong with her child Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in ...

According to a 2024 U.S. News report, the University of Iowa Health Care Medical Center is in the top 10 percent of hospitals in the nation in specialties such as heart surgery, lung surgery, and ...

When children with heart failure await transplants, they typically stay at the hospital for months to years, tethered to a bulky blood-pumping device. But an implantable heart pump could allow them to ...

There are new and revised warnings about the instructions for use of a certain type of heart pump that could lead to a risk of heart perforation, according to an alert issued by the pump's ...

A new type of surgically implanted pump that can support a child's failing heart has passed the first stage of human testing in a recent trial. A small, implantable cardiac pump that could help ...

A small, implantable cardiac pump that could help children await heart transplants at home, not in the hospital, has performed well in the first stage of human testing. The pump, a new type of ...

The newly studied heart pump device is the size of a AA battery. In this undated stock photo a Dr. listens with stethoscope. STOCK PHOTO/Getty Images New promising data finds that a small heart pump ...

US President Donald Trump’s ongoing efforts to reduce federal spending across government agencies have halted the development of a potentially life-saving heart pump designed for infants with ...