heart transplant

NBC 6’s Marcine Joseph is in Hollywood with the inspiring three-year-old’s story.

Two-year-old Majesty Williams is in good spirits. She loves to dress up and she has a healthy appetite. Her mother, Shaneka Holloman, says she is blessed her little girl is doing so well just six months after she had a heart transplant. “On the second day, once everything came out she was eating and doing everything like normal,” says Holloman….

NBC 6’s Nathalia Ortiz shares the emotional story of one youngster who received a second chance at life thanks to the work of doctors at the hospital.

It’s been a tough road and an emotional journey for Frances Rodriguez. Her 11-month-old daughter, Isabelle was born with a rare congenital heart condition called hypoplastic left heart syndrome, which basically means she was born with only half a heart.

At 27, Kara DuBois experienced chest pain but her doctor explained that she had a panic attack. So she thought little of it until five years later. She learned that she actually had experienced a heart attack and needed quadruple bypass surgery. Since then she has had four more heart attacks and was in end-stage heart failure. “I didn’t know that...

The girl who got her wish to meet Drake while awaiting heart surgery in Chicago last month now has a direct line to the rapper — he gave Sofia Sanchez an iPhone with his private number so she can text him directly, she told the “Today” show.

If you’re drowning in medical debt, you can ask for financial help. Charity Care is an option. You might qualify even if your family has health insurance.

A 23-month-old Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, boy who was escorted by snowplows and state troopers for an emergency procedure during this week’s snowstorm was resting comfortably Friday in a hospital.  Bentley Gingerlowski has a rare congenital heart defect and on Tuesday he needed an emergency treatment. But it was at the height of a powerful snowstorm and the doctors equipped to do...

The National Guard and Pennsylvania State Police teamed up with PennDOT to ensure that snow wouldn’t stop a toddler in need of life-saving medical care from getting to the hospital.

A six-year-old girl who appeared to have a simple cold was instead diagnosed with a heart condition and became to youngest patient in Florida to receive a special device while she awaits a heart transplant.

A Denver Broncos player dropped a bombshell on a cancer and heart transplant patient the night before the Super Bowl and was moved to tears by the encounter.

A special anniversary to celebrate second chances took place at Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital Thursday where some pediatric heart transplant patients celebrated the program’s fifth anniversary by reuniting with the families of donors.

An assistant principal at M.A. Milam K-8 Center in Hialeah is recovering from a life-saving heart transplant.

It was a celebration in the form of a press conference Wednesday at Holtz Children’s Hospital in Miami where a young girl with a rare heart condition was finally heading home.

A special pair of South Florida children received new hearts.