- Bernard Lown, MD, inventor of the direct-current defibrillator, will likely be featured on the U.S. dollar coin in 2024.
- Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Children’s Hospital implanted its first artificial heart into a 5-month-old girl with severe heart failure.
- Hattiesburg, Miss.-based Forrest Health and Hattiesburg Clinic partnered to open Mississippi’s first outpatient heart surgery center.
- Minneapolis-based cardiologist Elizabeth Klodas, MD, created foods designed to fight heart disease.
- Charlotte, N.C.-based Atrium Health Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute’s heart transplant team is using technology that keeps hearts viable for up to eight hours, instead of the traditional four.
- Cardiologists at Durham, N.C.-based Duke Health performed what is believed to be the world’s first partial heart transplant by fusing the arteries and valves from a freshly donated heart onto an existing heart.
- Bernard Lown, MD, inventor of the direct-current defibrillator, will likely be featured on the U.S. dollar coin in 2024.
- Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Children’s Hospital implanted its first artificial heart into a 5-month-old girl with severe heart failure.
- Hattiesburg, Miss.-based Forrest Health and Hattiesburg Clinic partnered to open Mississippi’s first outpatient heart surgery center.
- Minneapolis-based cardiologist Elizabeth Klodas, MD, created foods designed to fight heart disease.
- Charlotte, N.C.-based Atrium Health Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute’s heart transplant team is using technology that keeps hearts viable for up to eight hours, instead of the traditional four.
- Cardiologists at Durham, N.C.-based Duke Health performed what is believed to be the world’s first partial heart transplant by fusing the arteries and valves from a freshly donated heart onto an existing heart.
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