JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Heart disease is the number one killer of men and women in the United States. For years, doctors have used metal stents to repair clogged arteries in the heart, but now, they're ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paul Hargadon in his workshop at home in Georgetown. Hargadon was the first person in the United States to receive the CGuard ...

A new drug-eluting balloon can perform just as well as the standard treatment for patients with coronary in-stent restenosis (ISR) undergoing repeated percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). These ...

The Food and Drug Administration recently approved a heart stent made specifically for infants and young children, a device that could help kids born with certain congenital heart defects avoid a ...

Twenty-four weeks into her pregnancy, Serena Chen and her husband received unexpected news: a fetal echocardiogram revealed that their daughter, Chloe, would be born with a congenial heart defect that ...

Imagine a patient in their late sixties who has been living with a bioprosthetic aortic valve when, due to calcium buildup, the valve begins to fail and must be replaced. Because of the patient’s ...

Paul Hargadon doesn't put much stock in being the first person in the United States to get a new kind of carotid artery stent. His vascular surgeon Dr. Bradley Boone at Cardiothoracic and Vascular ...