Instead of taking six to eight weeks to fuse the sternum, Kryptonite does it in 24 hours, Calgary doctor says

Canadian researchers have pioneered a new way to mend a patient’s breastbone after open-heart surgery, using a Superman-strength glue that cuts healing time and reduces pain.

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A cardiac surgeon in Calgary has spearheaded a move to send medical and surgical supplies to Ukraine after seeing a doctor there treat open-heart surgery …

Debra Isaac and Paul W.M. Fedak: It is eerily quiet in our hospital cardiac units. It shouldn’t be

Avenue Calgary’s 2010 Top 40 Under 40. If you ever get heart surgery performed by Paul Fedak, there’s something you might want to know: after the anesthesia kicks in and you fall to sleep, he turns up the tunes, filling the operating room with anything from old-school Mtley Cre to Rush or Van Halen. “Maybe it’s because I’m the MTV generation, but I need constant noise,” Fedak says. “It helps me and others to relax.”

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A Calgary surgeon is sending medical supplies to Ukraine after seeing a doctor there treat open-heart surgery patients in a bomb shelter.

The University of Calgary’s Libin Cardiovascular Institute is researching the No. 1 cause of premature death among women in Canada.

Foothills Medical Centre’s Dr. Paul Fedak discusses what it’s like to hold a human heart.