The Nebraska Heart Institute Heart Hospital (NHH) in Lincoln is one of eight sites in the United States to perform less invasive mitral valve repair surgery as part of a FDA approv...

Cardiologists with the Nebraska Heart Institute performed the region's first alcohol septal ablation, a treatment for hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy. Hypertropic cardio...

A clot forms, an artery clogs and heart muscle dies. A heart attack is just the start of troubles for some. In 2 percent of survivors, the clot also stops blood flow to tissu...

For some, open heart surgery may be a thing of the past. Open-heart surgery could be a thing of the past for some. Doctors at the Nebraska Heart Institute are now performing a n...

This week at the Heart Hospital, Dr. Wudel, along with the operating room staff, performed the first minimally invasive surgery for irregular heartbeat (atrial fibrillation) in whi...

The Nebraska Heart Institute (NHI) announces that it now is performing a breakthrough procedure for the diagnosis and treatment of complex cardiac arrhythmias or abnormal heart rhy...

In 2002, The Nebraska Heart Institute was the first center in the state to implant a drug-eluting stent as part of a FDA clinical trial. Recently, the FDA gave approval to place in...

"Did you hear about the doughnut shop in Portland, Oregon, that has caffeinated doughnuts?" asked Jay Leno in a monologue a few days back: "Yeah, I guess you can stay awake during ...

LINCOLN - Florence Guiles, 81, of North Platte, was dressed and ready to go home Friday morning, three days after doctors sawed through her chest bone and bypassed a clogged artery...