Many 30-somethings worry about the job market, their economic futures, or how to have fun in their off time. But 35-year-old Sean Semon worries about staying alive. The longtime Henderson resident, and former Basic High School football standout, needs a heart transplant to survive. He already has o...

5-month-old infant received the 100th heart transplant performed at Seattle Children’s Hospital on Saturday. Ethan Robbins, from the Puget Sound area, suffered from congenital hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a condition in which a thickening of heart muscle inhibits blood flow through the bod...

Along with booths set up by businesses and organizations, Anthony Miller of the American Foundation for Cardiomyopathy will be on hand raising funds for the foundation. Miller founded the Phoenix-based nonprofit with his wife Stephanie and is the president and CEO. Cardiomyopathy results from a w...

The Clark County Coroner’s Office released Spencer Melvin’s cause of death Wednesday afternoon. He died of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, which is a thickening of the heart muscle. It is a condition that is usually inherited. The 8-year-old Little Leaguer suddenly collapsed died on h...

Italian soccer player Piermario Morosini tragically fell to the ground in a match on April 14. A defibrillator was applied to Morosini, who was conscious, but unfortunately it failed to save his life as he died before the ambulance carrying him could reach the hospital. An Indonesian soccer play...

The family of a brave South Tyneside baby who is recovering from a heart transplant will go the distance to thank the medics who saved her life.   Little Llana Qazi received a new heart on February 29 after spending almost eight months in Newcastle’s Freeman Hospital. The 11-month-old,...

I don’t feel any different,” said Bobby Limon. “I feel like I could run a marathon.” But this seemingly healthy 17-year-old Hays High School junior from Buda can’t run a marathon or play active sports anymore because his heart may give out. Bobby has Hypertrophic Ca...