One of the first surgeons to use these improved techniques to gain access to the heart was Dr. Dwight Harken, a young U.S. Army surgeon. Many of Harken's patients were young soldiers evacuated ...

Pioneering South African heart surgeon Christiaan Barnard, who performed the world's first human heart transplant in 1967, died today while on holiday in Cyprus. Barnard, who was 78, died at a ...