The heart-lung machine was a groundbreaking invention that took place in Philadelphia and has saved millions of lives.

Gino Marcantonio has two things to be thankful for that helped save his life when he collapsed from a heart attack on Jan. 21 in his mother’s house. One is technology: Hartford Hospital’s ECMO on the ...

Two infants, Rachel and Sweety, underwent complex heart surgeries at BM Birla Heart Hospital. Both babies' hearts failed to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA designated the recall of Getinge’s heart-lung machine emergency drive as class I, the most serious type.

BUTLER TWP. – It was 1953, and 25-year-old Dr. Victor Greco had a young woman’s life in his hands. Literally. The woman, 18-year-old Cecelia Bavolek of Wilkes-Barre, was the first patient to be ...

Richard N. Sarns was a machinist from Mount Clemens, Mich., who attended the local high school in 1944, spent some time in the Navy, studied at the Lawrence Institute of Technology, worked for the ...