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Heart Defects

Arnold Schwarzenegger reveals he had pacemaker surgery recently

  • Mar 29, 2024

Long Island boy born with heart defect defies the odds to play hockey

  • Feb 12, 2024

High school volleyball team honors former player after sudden death

  • Sep 13, 2023

What are cardiac arrest, heart attack and heart failure?

  • Jan 3, 2023

Alaska man misses heart transplant over massive winter storm

  • Dec 29, 2022

Study says 2-3 cups of coffee a day could be good for your heart

  • Sep 29, 2022

Girl travels from war-torn Ukraine to Long Island for heart surgery

  • Jul 22, 2022

9-year-old Ukrainian girl gets life-saving heart surgery on LI

  • Jul 21, 2022

Latest Videos

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Mother with rare heart condition set to go home after receiving lifesaving transplant

  • Jan 30, 2024
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Girl travels from war-torn Ukraine to Long Island for heart surgery

  • Jul 22, 2022
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9-year-old Ukrainian girl gets life-saving heart surgery on LI

  • Jun 14, 2022
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Teen from Africa celebrating 1st Thanksgiving after life-saving surgery on Long Island

  • Nov 26, 2019
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Teen from Africa celebrating 1st Thanksgiving after heart surgery

  • Nov 26, 2019
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8-year-old girl from Haiti has life-saving surgery on Long Island to correct rare heart condition

  • Dec 21, 2018
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Parents push for health screenings after student's football practice death in the Bronx

  • Aug 23, 2017
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Teenager ecstatic after successful heart transplant

  • Jul 6, 2017

Latest Stories

Mother trains students, staff on CPR, AED following son's death from cardiac arrest

A grieving mother has trained more than 14,000 people on how to do CPR, including staff and students at the Trey Whitfield School in Brooklyn.

  • May 7, 2021

Testing positive for COVID-19 may have saved Vikings linebacker's life

Cameron Smith made the announcement on Instagram saying he found out he needed surgery after testing positive for COVID-19.

  • Aug 9, 2020

Teen from Africa celebrating 1st Thanksgiving after life-saving surgery on Long Island

Ambrus Correa might be from Gambia, but he will be celebrating his first Thanksgiving surrounded by the medical staff who saved his life.

  • Nov 26, 2019

Hospital's youngest heart patients celebrate Valentine's Day

It doesn't get much sweeter than this. Since these cuties won't be able to celebrate Valentine's Day at home this year, they had a party at Advocate Children's Hospital on Monday.

  • Feb 12, 2019

8-year-old girl from Haiti has life-saving surgery on Long Island to correct rare heart condition

An 8-year-old girl from Haiti had a Christmas wish to be able to do what most little girls do -- play, jump rope. and run around with her friends. And thanks to a life-saving heart surgery performed on Long Island, now she can.

  • Dec 21, 2018