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

This photo was taken after the surgery to correct the bleed on Poppy McGee’s brain last year. She is in the center in the front, in her wheelchair. Mollie is to her left, along with Mollie’s daughter, ...

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

A new study sheds light on the limitations of not using sex-specific guidelines.

CHICAGO — For many patients, the fear of open-heart surgery keeps them off the operating table. But doctors say a coronary artery bypass is life-changing — and so is the lesser-known and less-invasive ...

You're getting heart surgery, but your surgeon notices a new anomaly that perhaps could be fixed at the same time. That's more likely to happen if you're a man than a woman, new studies find. The ...

When operating on the heart, surgeons may find another issue in the patient. Depending on what they see, the surgical team may address on the secondary condition during the same operation. These are ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHICAGO — For many patients, the fear of ...