Cardiac surgeon Amy Fiedler, MD, stares at the motionless heart below her in an operating room at UC San Francisco’s Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights. She’s nearly five hours into a ...

NEW ORLEANS, LA—Female cardiothoracic surgeons received substantially less money from industry in 2023 than did their male counterparts, according to new data. “We were in shock when we saw the data,” ...

You're getting heart surgery, but your surgeon notices a new anomaly that perhaps could be fixed at the same time. That's more likely to happen if you're a man than a woman, new studies find. The ...

LISBON, Portugal—Women undergoing CABG surgery seem to have a higher rate of in-hospital mortality if they are treated by a male versus female surgeon, according to a single-center analysis from the ...