Credit: Erin Fairchild, The Methodist Hospital
A surgical team at The Methodist Hospital in Houston injected stem cells into the beating heart of a patient with advanced heart failure today. Heart surgeon Dr. Michael Reardon, second from left, and Dr. Brian Bruckner, fourth from right, led the procedure, which was the first of its kind in the United States. Stem cells from the patient's bone marrow are in the syringe in the foreground.