"He had a terrible end to his life, a terrible death filled with fear and anxiety and pain. And we feel that this was so preventable." ...

As surgery on the body’s most vital organs, the brain and heart, has become more daring and more effective, it has also become more complex. Each new mechanical or electronic aid to the surgeon’s ...

An 82-year-old Baptist Health System patient says the hospital’s newest hybrid operating room helped save his life after doctors found a dangerous aneurysm.

Open heart surgery can sound scary, but it can also save lives. Dr. Willis from Bon Secours joined Megan and Jamarcus to explain what happens in the operating room and why it may be the best ...

Open heart surgery requires cutting open your chest to access and repair your heart. This is an extensive surgery that may last as long as 3-5 hours. Recovery from open heart surgery may take 4-6 ...

Of the two heart valve surgeries Janice Smith has had at OhioHealth Mansfield Hospital, the second was much easier for her. "I had a good experience both times," the 86-year-old said. "It's just that ...

Surgery in UC Hospital operating room, 1924. This photograph from 1924, taken in one of the operating rooms at the University of California Hospital (present day UCSF), is spare and almost austere.

New York State Department of Health inspectors issued an “immediate jeopardy” notice about the open-heart surgery program at Wynn Hospital in Utica on Wednesday, hours before hospital officials ...