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A BRISBANE woman who tracked down her birth family to uncover her medical history has discovered she has an extremely rare heart condition.

Earlier this week, the Chiefs Women's Organization volunteered at The Culinary Center of Kansas City to prepare meals for families at the Ronald McDonald House.

Looking to help a stranger fulfill a dream? On GoFundMe , read about young Camille of the Bethesda area, who is hoping to travel to Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand next spring.

When we think of saving a life, we think of someone jumping into freezing water to rescue people trapped in a car that slid off an icy road, or a firefighter running into a burning building to pull out a child.

Are you as stunned as us? Scientific advances with the heart have become out-of-this-world in the way that they are exceptionally extraordinary.

Editor's note: Patch is partnering with GoFundMe to bring the Woodstock and Towne Lake community local stories of people in need.

It's been less than a week since Cameron Spray received a new heart, but it's already making a big difference for the young boy.

Patch is teaming up with the "crowdsourcing," money-raising site GoFundMe.com to help raise money for local causes.

The latest statistics released from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reveal that patients who have suffered acute myocardial infarction , more commonly known as heart attack, who receive care at Saint Luke's have lower 30-day mortality rates than at any other facility within 100 miles.

Weirton Medical Center and Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Health Network Wednesday announced a strategic alliance that will significantly improve the delivery of high-quality, comprehensive heart care services to residents of Weirton and its neighboring communities through greater collaboration between cardiologists and cardiac surgeons at each system.

Tomorrow night at 6 PM, the Gene Siskel Film Center concludes its monthlong Claire Denis retrospective with the French director's most challenging work, The Intruder .

Recent advances in the high-throughput deep sequencing technologies provide new leads in transcriptome analysis."

Last weekend saw the beginning of Advent, the four week season of preparation for Christmas.

It is Operation Popcorn week in BC, a chance for those most grateful for the gift of life, transplant recipients, to give back and say thank you to the hospital staff who make second chances possible every single day.

Siblings Hatteras and Ruben Greenspun, of Ithaca, wanted to do something special for their grandfather Fred Knewstub, who is awaiting a heart transplant in Rochester.

Surgeon Simulator 2013 is a darkly humorous over-the-top operation sim game where players become Nigel Burke, a would be surgeon taking life into his own shaky hands, performing life-saving surgical manoeuvres on passive patients.

Not only was Karen Wright privy to those numbers, she could very easily put a face on a great many of them.

In their book, "Heart," former Vice President Dick Cheney and his longtime cardiologist, Jonathan Reiner, talk about Mr. Cheney's history with heart disease and the advances in cardiology over the past several decades.

Casey Bailey, his wife, Keri, and their three children enjoy the outdoors. But in recent months, the young father was nearly unable to walk, so serious had his genetic heart disorder become.

Barstow >> Caleb Lucas is a happy and sweet-tempered little 7-year-old, alternately shy but excited to see strangers in a world that mostly consists of the small Muriel Drive home he shares with his mother.