Vaccines for the world’s most deadly diseases, like cancer and heart disease, will likely be ready by 2030 and could save millions of lives, according to the top doctor at one the world’s leading drug companies. The announcement is yet another sign of what many are calling “the golden age” […]
Robert Harrington, MD: Hi. This is Bob Harrington from Stanford University, here on theheart.org and Medscape Cardiology. Throughout the course of the last 2 years, we’ve been trying to bring to our listenership and our readership a series of topics on the intersection of COVID-19 and the heart — cardiovascular disease. […]
David Bennett Sr, the 57-year-old patient with terminal heart disease who became the first person to receive a genetically modified pig heart, has died. He passed away yesterday, according to a statement from the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC), Baltimore, where the transplant was performed. Bennett received the transplant on January 7 and […]
