Heart Transplants

Yes How many years will Dick Cheney make use of his new heart? Probably not as many as someone on the transplant list who is decades younger than the former vice president. But there is no way doctors can determine whose years are worth more. And...

When is The World According To Dick Cheney on? Below details the Showtime air dates and times, as well as gives a preview of the highly anticipated documentary. Supporters and critics will find much to debate and insights to be learned in Showtime’s...

The stories I write linger longer in me than its publishing date. Sometimes concepts remain like riddles in my mind and surprise me with greater stories later on. I relate this idea to Yanira Barona, a 41-year-old mother from Whitehall, whose story I've...

Former Vice President Dick Cheney undergoes a heart transplant operation; let the one-liners begin!...

What began as a flight of medical mercy turned into a tragedy without warning, according to federal investigators probing the recent Florida crash of a helicopter carrying a heart transplant team....

Heart transplant patient Erik Compton on leaderboard at Humana Challenge; Phil Mickelson tied for 25th....

brightcove.createExperiences(); Nearly four years after it sought to establish the region’s first heart transplant program, Florida Hospital announced today that its transplant team had successfully completed Central Florida’s first one. Edwin...

Florida Hospital officials and staffers are mourning the death of Dr. Lawrence McBride, a nationally renowned surgeon who moved here earlier this year to lead the hospital's new heart-lung transplant program. McBride, who was 61, died last week of a...

If you have a free evening and want to hear an inspirational story, check out Erik Compton's appearance at Winter Park Country Club tonight starting at 6:30 p.m. Compton, a former Nationwide Tour pro now playing on a second transplanted heart, has a...

Happy Thursday. In today's Varsity High Five we update a special story involving a heart transplant patient, detail some national buzz for a local pitcher and more. 1. Pine Castle softball team meets with heart transplant survivor. We begin with an update...

Oviedo cross country and track coach Tom Hammontree, who had heart transplant surgery on Jan. 10, is getting stronger everyday. “Feeling good [three] weeks out from the transplant,” Hammontree said in an email to the Sentinel. “Today...

Oviedo cross country and track coach Tom Hammontree, 68, underwent successful heart transplant surgery Thursday night at Florida Hospital-Orlando, according to his wife, Jane Hammontree. “He is recovering as expected,” Jane said. “He...