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• Global Ethics Debate Intensifies Over Fair Donor Heart Allocation as Waitlist Deaths Rise to 15 Percent

  Published: Apr 27, 2026

  Section: Medical News

  Medical experts at the ISHLT 46th Annual Meeting addressed the critical shortage of donor hearts, where annual demand continues to outpace the roughly 7,000 transplants performed w...

• South African Health Department Rebuts Allegations of Rising Mortality Within Charlotte Maxeke Hospital Cardiac Surgery Unit

  Published: Apr 1, 2026

  Section: Africa

  The Gauteng health department has officially dismissed claims of declining surgical standards at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital as misleading. The response follows...

• Washington State University engineers create first 3D printed beating heart model for realistic surgical rehearsal

  Published: Mar 4, 2026

  Section: Research

  Researchers have developed a fully synthetic, 3D-printed model of the heart's left side that mimics anatomical curvature and dynamic contractions. The model features integrated sen...