Last week there was lots of buzz about the Rolling Stones postponing their tour to allow 75-year-old lead singer Mick Jagger to undergo a heart valve operation. Reports are that on last Thursday, ...

A Phoenix hospital became the first in the nation to successfully perform a new procedure aimed at treating patients with ...

University of Iowa Health Care recently debuted a new, minimally invasive heart valve procedure after years of research and months of work toward approval by the Federal Drug Administration. A second ...

When Medicare in 2011 agreed to pay for a procedure to replace leaky heart valves by snaking a replacement through blood vessels, the goal was to offer relief to the tens of thousands of patients too ...

During heart valve replacement surgery, a surgeon replaces damaged or diseased valves in the heart. They can replace it with a mechanical valve or biological valve from a pig or cow. A person with ...