"We really have to stop treating women as if they were small men," a surgeon says in response to a study of women's higher ...

Women and men experience similar rates of dangerous complications after a major heart surgery.So why are women dyin ...

Despite having no greater chance of developing problems after high risk cardiovascular surgery, women are more likely than ...

When Richard A. Thompson III walks through hospital corridors or on their grounds with families of loved ones who are injured or sick or dying; when he sits at the bedside, often holding the hands of ...

Aortic aneurysms can be deadly. If they rupture, a person only has a 20% chance of survival. The aorta, sometimes referred to ...