The San Antonio Congenital Heart Walk, presented by University Health, was held Sunday morning at Morgan’s Wonderland Sports ...

Elizabeth Cooney is a cardiovascular disease reporter at STAT, covering heart, stroke, and metabolic conditions. You can reach Liz on Signal at LizC.22. Until Jennifer Cortes joined a patient advocacy ...

SAN ANTONIO – Founded in 2000, HeartGift specializes in providing corrective surgeries to children worldwide who are born with congenital heart defects (CHD), particularly in regions where medical ...

Congenital heart defects are the most common form of human birth defect, but we still don't fully understand what causes them. Previous research had suggested that some heart defects could be ...

On the day he sat down for a newspaper interview, Dr. Robert Mangano had enlarged a stent in the heart of a 16-year-old girl he’d known from birth, when he saved her life by creating a hole in her ...

Three copies of chromosome 21 cause Down syndrome (DS), and roughly half of children born each year in the United States with ...

Onset of diabetes before age 40 is associated with 2.5 times higher risk for mortality than onset at a later age.

Background Population studies of congenital heart disease (CHD) often include only children receiving cardiac interventions, ...

Nearly 40 years ago when Lis Dreizen’s daughter Olivia was born with a congenital heart defect, doctors were grim about her chances to live. “I would cry simply looking at Olivia, and it was very hard ...

NISKAYUNA, N.Y. — A young girl from Niskayuna, born with seven heart defects, is preparing for another surgery this year. Her family is reaching out for help to raise funds for the hospital that has ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The incidence of cyanotic congenital heart disease in infants is rising in states with restrictive abortion laws ...

Partial heart transplants for congenital heart disease using donor semilunar valves showed valve growth matching patient development in infants. Transplanted valves functioned well over time, with no ...