A heart-lung machine takes over the work of the heart and lungs during surgeries. It oxygenates and circulates blood when a person's heart or lungs can't work properly. While essential, using a ...

Over the past century, heart operations that once were unthinkable have become commonplace. Thousands of times a day, surgeons graft arteries, fix structural defects or transplant entire hearts.

Richard N. Sarns was a machinist from Mount Clemens, Mich., who attended the local high school in 1944, spent some time in the Navy, studied at the Lawrence Institute of Technology, worked for the ...