While the first innovators in the area of minimally invasive cardiac procedures began introducing methods such as finger-fracture valvuloplasty as early as the 1920s — in the case of England’s Henry ...

A consultant hired by U.S. Steel to investigate an August 11 explosion at the company’s Clairton Coke Works found water pumped into a valve during a scheduled maintenance exceeded the valve’s pressure ...

Updated: October 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM EDT This story has been corrected to show that maintenance was being performed on a gas isolation valve. The federal board investigating the fatal August explosion ...

Earlier, less-invasive treatment is at the core of the latest iteration of the joint European Society of Cardiology/European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (ESC/EACTS) valvular heart disease ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Preparations for a routine maintenance task may have led to an explosion at a U.S. Steel coal-processing plant near Pittsburgh that left two dead and sent 10 to hospitals, the ...