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A groundbreaking heart procedure at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital has made Maryland history. Joan Mertz, 83, became the first patient in the state to undergo an artificial heart valve ...

Children’s National Hospital appointed Wayne Franklin, MD, as senior vice president of its Heart Center. Just one year into his tenure, the hospital’s cardiac team achieved a milestone: performing the ...

Foldax announces late-breaking, one-year data on the TRIA Mitral Valve at New York Valves 2025, which was concurrently ...

Artificial heart valves are the standard of care for children born with congenital heart disease, but need to be replaced after about 10 years, requiring children to undergo multiple open-heart ...

HonorHealth Research Institute clinical trial, using non-surgical techniques, showed 86% of patients with a type of usually ...

When I cross that finish line on April 21, I’ll become the first runner with an artificial heart valve to earn the prestigious Abbott Six Star Medal, proving that with perseverance, ...

A runner who had open heart surgery has broken a Guinness World Record. Alex Hunt, from Cambridge, ran the Stevenage marathon in three hours and six minutes. The publishers of the famous record book ...

Lawyer Alex Hunt, 37, becomes a Guinness World Record holder after setting a blistering marathon pace...years after open ...

A Cambridgeshire dad has ended up breaking a world running record after initially fearing he would never get to se his ...

GAITHERSBURG, Md. (7News) — An 11-year-old Maryland boy is making medical history after becoming the first person in the world to have an artificial heart valve replaced with a living valve from ...