The new device is smaller than a grain of rice and gets absorbed by the patient’s body when it’s no longer needed, ...

“There’s a lot of heart disease in my family and I thought this is a way that I could contribute, and I thought it would be very interesting.” The tiny mechanism is slipped into an artery in ...

catheter-based procedure to place a tiny stent into the ductus arteriosus of an infant with only one good pumping chamber in the heart. Normally, that ductus promotes blood flow between mother and ...