MIAMI — A South Florida boy is back on the baseball field after doctors used virtual reality technology to treat a complex heart defect without open-heart surgery. Matthew, 12, was born with a ...

Theodore Evans was born on a Thursday. Three days later, on Dec. 8, 2024, as the family prepared to go home from Lakeview Hospital in Covington, Veronica Evans handed her son off to a nurse for his ...

One morning in May 2019, a cardiac surgeon stepped into the operating room at Boston Children’s Hospital more prepared than ever before to perform a high-risk procedure to rebuild a child’s heart. The ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Virtual reality helped calm patients’ nerves before cardiac surgery. Holistic anxiety reduction may be ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Virtual reality headsets aren’t just for playing video games. At Oregon Health & Science University’s Doernbecher Children’s Hospital, doctors are using the technology to ...

Cottage Heart & Vascular Center will offer a free Virtual Meet the Doctor, featuring cardiovascular and thoracic surgeon Dr. Michael Paulsen, 4-5 p.m. Thursday, April 17. The discussion will focus on ...

My daughter was two when she got her first pacemaker. She needed it because of a congenital condition that had reversed the lower chambers of her heart. That resulted in electrical problems—making her ...

This type of model, known as a virtual twin, can do more than identify medical problems—it can provide detailed diagnostic insights. In Boston, the team used the model to predict how the child’s heart ...