On April 14, medical personnel at Wuhan Union Hospital check a child patient's condition after a heart pump implantation surgery. [Photo by Liu Kunwei/For chinadaily.com.cn] The boy, from Shandong ...

Finding it difficult to find a donor heart that matched the boy's O blood type, doctors turned to a homegrown artificial heart. A team led by cardiac surgeon Dong Nianguo performed the five-hour ...

A new handheld device could replacing traditional stethoscopes for heart disease screening ... and many patients only see their doctor when the disease has advanced and they are experiencing ...