Dr. Murphy, a cardiologist at Mount Sinai in Queens, was determined to help Umair see his son again, and performed an emergency heart stent procedure.
A shift in the medical field is helping save the lives of transplant recipients, including a man who needed a new heart.
GREAT NEWS: A dog at a Long Island animal shelter that couldn't be adopted due to a heart defect has found his forever home after receiving life-changing surgery.
Kobe, a 3-year-old English bulldog-pit bull mix, has been unable to be adopted due to a heart defect but will soon receive life-changing surgery.
For 10 years, Arun Sinha was obsessed with his personal goal of climbing Mount Everest. But the Stamford resident's plans changed after he needed triple bypass heart surgery.
Baby Livia came two weeks early because doctors at Elmhurst Hospital realized the mother had another serious medical issue.