Heart Surgery

In 1893, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams became the first surgeon to perform open-heart surgery on a human. He started his career as one of only four practicing, Black doctors in Chicago and cared for Black and white patients.

A lucky Massachusetts man won $1 million from a scratch-off ticket with the word “heart” in it that he received as a get-well gift after undergoing open-heart surgery.

Former Vice President Mike Pence has undergone surgery to have a pacemaker implanted.

Chicago’s favorite alligator trapper, Frank Robb, opens up about his upcoming heart surgery next month.

In 2015, when Denise Castille experienced swollen feet and then heart palpitations, she visited her doctor and a cardiologist. Both said she was fine. She wasn’t. Soon after, the then 46-year-old had a “widow-maker” heart attack, a term used to refer to a serious heart attack occurring when a major artery in the heart is blocked. It’s often called a...

Kalie and Cora Sagan were enjoying a last weekend at home in Deerfield, before heading back to college at the University of Minnesota, when the family movie night there were having with their parents took a dramatic turn.

The Florida alligator trapper known to Chicagoans as “Alligator Robb” will have a more complicated surgery done than initially expected. The procedures will be life-saving, according to Robb, and could begin before the end of the year. Frank Robb left a lasting impact on Chicago in 2019 after a days-long effort to trap and catch an alligator, later named “Chance…

Doctors in virtually every field are scrambling to alter care as the new coronavirus spreads

A Chicago hospital was named among the best 20 hospitals in the country by U.S. News and World Report.

Holocaust survivor Eva Kor, who championed forgiveness even for those who carried out the Holocaust atrocities, died Thursday during an overseas trip for a museum she founded in Indiana, her son said. Kor was in Krakow, Poland, for an annual educational trip with the CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Terre Haute, Indiana, and died in the morning in...

To save babies from brain-damaging birth defects, University of Pittsburgh scientist Carolyn Coyne studies placentas from fetuses that otherwise would be discarded — and she’s worried this kind of research is headed for the chopping block. The Trump administration is cracking down on fetal tissue research , with new hurdles for government-funded scientists around the country who call the special...

The Trump administration said Wednesday it is ending medical research by government scientists that uses human fetal tissue, overriding the advice of scientists who say it has led to life-saving medical advances and handing abortion opponents a major victory. The Health and Human Services Department said in a statement that government-funded research by universities that involves fetal tissue can continue...

It was the death heard ’round the running world. In July 1984, acclaimed author and running guru Jim Fixx died of a heart attack while trotting along a country road in Vermont. Overnight, a nascent global movement of asphalt athletes got a gut check: Just because you run marathons doesn’t mean you’re safe from heart problems. Fast-forward 35 years, and...

The Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger will reportedly have heart surgery. The news comes days after the band postponed its North American tour following doctors’ telling Jagger he needed to take a break from touring to receive medical treatment. The procedure will take place Friday in New York and the rocker is expected to make a full recovery and return...

The girl who got her wish to meet Drake while awaiting heart surgery in Chicago last month now has a direct line to the rapper — he gave Sofia Sanchez an iPhone with his private number so she can text him directly, she told the “Today” show.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is in good spirits as he recovers from heart surgery in a Los Angeles hospital.

Actor and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is recovering from a planned surgery to replace a heart valve, his spokesman said Friday.

Ester Ledecka won the second leg of an unheard-of Olympic double, taking the gold medal in snowboarding’s parallel giant slalom Saturday to go with her surprise skiing victory in the Alpine super-G earlier in the Winter Games. The Czech star, top-ranked on the snowboarding circuit but never a threat until now in skiing, is the first to win gold medals...

Four years ago, snowboarder A.J. Muss had a decision to make: Keep his Olympics hopes alive, or keep his heart working properly. Muss had just awoken from a medically induced coma. Days earlier, he had flat-lined in a back of an ambulance after a heart problem caused his lungs to fill with fluid and eventually puncture.

Jimmy Kimmel held his baby son as he returned to his late-night show after a week off for the boy’s heart surgery. Kimmel was crying from the first moment of his monologue Monday night as he pleaded with Congress to restore and improve children’s health coverage, a cause he has championed since his son Billy was born with a heart...