On Go Red for Women Day, know your heart disease risk factors, signs of disease to prevent No. 1 cause of death for women.

Keturah White, who has suffered three strokes and had open-heart surgery, is turning her survival into advocacy nationwide.

Criteria for who should get heart surgery and when are based primarily on research in men, but two studies suggest this leads ...

A nurse-led initiative at a Denver hospital led to fewer complications for female patients recovering from open-heart surgery and decreased the wound incidence rate following sternotomies from 6.4% to ...

One in five older adults gets an infection up to six months after heart surgery, and women are far more likely to develop one, according to recent studies. Black patients also had higher rates of ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - One Saint Luke’s Mid-America Heart Institute patient is sharing her lifelong journey with heart disease that has left hospital staff feeling like family. 41-year-old Christin ...

Despite having no greater chance of developing problems after high risk cardiovascular surgery, women are more likely than men to die from postoperative complications, a new study suggests. The ...

The Free Care Fund at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh ensures no child is denied medical care. And every year since 1954, KDKA-TV has helped raise money for the Free Care Fund with our annual ...

When doctors tell patients they’ll access their heart through the groin, many react with confusion or concern. Yet this approach, known as the transfemoral method, has become a cornerstone of modern ...

Women and men experience similar rates of dangerous complications after a major heart surgery. So why are women dying at higher rates than men when these complications strike? That's the main question ...