Houston Surgeons

Where there is a will, there is a way; an old adage was proved by a US surgeon who walked nearly 10 kilometres through snow to perform a life-saving brain surgery.

Two Houston surgeons successfully implanted the world's first continuous-flow artificial heart in a 55-year-old patient, a significant advance that promises a smaller and much more durable alternative to existing artificial hearts.Dr Bud Frazier and Billy Cohn took out the dead heart of Craig A Lewis on March 10 at the Texas Heart Institute.Texas H...

Where there is a will, there is a way; an old adage was proved by a US surgeon who walked nearly 10 kilometres through snow to perform a life-saving brain surgery.

Two Houston surgeons successfully implanted the world's first continuous-flow artificial heart in a 55-year-old patient, a significant advance that promises a smaller and much more durable alternative to existing artificial hearts.Dr Bud Frazier and Billy Cohn took out the dead heart of Craig A Lewis on March 10 at the Texas Heart Institute.Texas H...