University of Tennessee Medical Center staffers are saving the lives of East Tennesseans fighting COVID-19 through a new treatment that's in very high demand. Nearly a year after the pandemic made its ...

(WXYZ) — As America prepares to mark its 250th anniversary, we're looking at the people and ideas that helped shape the nation. One of those is a medical ...

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, can be a lifesaving technology for patients whose organs have failed. It works, essentially, by performing the functions that a healthy person’s lungs and ...

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In a perfect world, a patient suffering from cardiac arrest could get help for their heart without rushing into emergency surgery during an attack. Or someone in critical need of a life-saving lung or ...

Gino Marcantonio has two things to be thankful for that helped save his life when he collapsed from a heart attack on Jan. 21 in his mother’s house. One is technology: Hartford Hospital’s ECMO on the ...

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- Life-saving technology gave a 3-day-old baby a second chance at life. His parents are thanking a machine at Ascension Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola called ECMO for saving their ...

It was early February when Nathaniel Williams was driving to work in New Mexico a few miles from El Paso. The 26-year-old Dallas native was hit head-on by a semi-truck, resulting in life-threatening ...

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