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Liberty Science Center's Live From Surgery program offers students a unique opportunity to peer into an operating room and interact with medical experts. This powerful learning experience exposes students to careers in biotechnology and medical science. ...

A New Jersey woman spent Mother's Day healthy and happy with a brand new heart. Her heart failure escalated before the pandemic hit. She struggled to breathe and to walk. Then in February 2020, she got a lifesaving call. She received a new heart at the ...

I have completed almost 650 heart transplants in my career as a cardiac surgeon. I have flown around the country more times than I can count, traveling everywhere from Wisconsin to Florida to complete these surgeries and stand on the front lines as ...

Every day, new people are added to the national organ transplant waiting list that is now about 108,000 people whose lives depend on an organ transplant. This week, more than 150 of them will die because not enough organs are available. Thousands of others ...

Medical Group cardiovascular specialists, Margarita Camacho, MD , Surgical Director, Heart Transplant Program, Moderator; Oxana Ovakimyan, MD ; Delphine Tang, MD , and Mariam Wassef, MD discuss heart health for all stages and phases of life. Visit our ...

All Day, Every Day, at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and Children’s Hospital of New Jersey At one of the Top 10 Heart Transplant Centers in U.S., NJ’s most comprehensive Children’s Heart Center, NJ’s only certified lung transplant program, and top ...

When Samantha was in dire need of a new heart, she turned to the healthcare system that performs more adult heart transplants than any other on the east coast.