One in five older adults gets an infection up to six months after heart surgery — with women far more likely to develop one, according to studies led ...

I had no symptoms and thousands of people die every year with the condition I now have as it goes undirected until it is too ...

Aortic stenosis is fairly uncommon among young people, though not absent. In younger folks, the disease is typically caused by a congenital heart condition. As we age, calcium deposits can build up ...

By his fifth decade of life, Mayor Doug Vitale had faced more than a dozen surgeries, the first one as a 1-year-old baby, to ...