Dr. Albert Starr, a world-renowned cardiovascular surgeon who co-invented and implanted the first artificial heart valve at ...

That’s not the case for all of us, I’m reminded, as I look inside a cardboard box containing around 20 plastic hearts—each a ...

When doctors tell patients they'll access their heart through the groin, many react with confusion or concern. Yet this ...

For most of history, the human heart has ... usher in the age of modern surgery. One of the first surgeons to use these improved techniques to gain access to the heart was Dr. Dwight Harken ...

Albert Starr embodied the highest qualities of a physician, an innovator and a teacher," the interim president of OHSU said ...

OK, so there's really nothing humorous or easy about heart transplant surgery. Last year in the ... of what's involved in taking the heart of one human and making it work in another.

Now, a heart simulator that replicates the complicated movements and functions of a real human heart has been created ...

It shows real-life images of the surgery and a real beating heart. It also shows how the pacemaker ... This short film is from the BBC series, Inside the Human Body. The 3D footage brings the ...