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Harvard Apparatus Regenerative Technology, Inc. , a clinical stage biotechnology company developing regenerated organs for transplant, initially focused on the trachea, has hired Saverio La Francesca, MD, a veteran cardiothoracic surgeon and leading organ transplant physician, as the Company's first Chief Medical Officer, effective April 14. Dr. La ... (more)

From the Whiting School of Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD ; Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD ; and Department of Cardiac Electrophysiology, Knight Cardiovascular Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland .

Children who have undergone life-saving transplants will today tell medics how important heart services in the North East are to them Children who have undergone life-saving transplants will today tell medics how important heart services in the North East are to them.

Lt. Governor Kim Guadagno visited NJ Sharing NetworkaA A s headquarters in New Providence today, April 15, to thank their staff and volunteers, as well as family members of organ and tissue donors and transplant recipients, for their efforts to save and enhance lives through organ and tissue donation.

A North Liberty woman who needed a heart transplant in 2012 met the family of the Wisconsin woman who gave her life at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics on Tuesday.

Brave girl who had THREE open-heart operations by the age of five to go on dream holiday to Disneyland A little girl who has had three open-heart operations is to be whisked away for a dream holiday at Disneyland.

Mark Johnson has been married 29 years, has four kids, and years of ventricular tachycardia-a rapid heartbeat that led to sudden deaths-but he would always come back.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney plans to visit Grand Rapids next week with his cardiologist to discuss Cheney's history of heart problems.

Six years ago the nationally known comic magician had been diagnosed with heart problems significant enough to be encouraged to "get on the list for a heart transplant."

One Casper resident who had heart transplant surgery in March of 2010, says it's an organ donor who made it possible for him to live a healthy, normal life today.

These results were achieved despite the OCS arm having significantly longer total cross clamp time as compared to SOC.

Mark S. Slaughter, M.D., of the Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery and his research team from the University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, presented data during the ISHLT Mechanical Circulatory Support: Bench to Bedside Session in his presentation entitled "Myocardial Regeneration and Recovery with Extracellular Matrix and LVAD ... (more)

There is an experimental treatment under investigation right now that would repair the damage done by heart disease.

The life of a Contractor is ever changing whether it be a Doctors Tenant improvement which I am at today or a Residential remodel.

Fit and strong are two words to describe Derek Fitzgerald, but his life is just getting back on track after doctors found a grapefruit-sized tumor in his stomach ten years ago and diagnosed him with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

The rainy weather didn't stop local community members from heading to the shooting range on Saturday.

They live in Whitley County; he works for a medical manufacturing company and she teaches students with special needs at Pierceton Elementary.

HAPPENED TO A LOCAL FAMILY WHEN THEY DISCOVERED THEIR BABY BOY HAD A HEART DEFECT.

A disabled man died penniless when he lost his benefits after being judged fit to work - despite being so ill doctors said he needed a new heart.

Kristina Chesterman, a 21-year-old nursing student, died in September, but her organs saved several lives.