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 ...

Alexandria Nyembwe is a registered nurse and health writer. She has worked in street medicine serving populations experiencing homelessness in Skid Row Los Angeles as well as in cardiovascular care in ...

Nine children from Tajikistan with complex congenital heart defects underwent successful surgeries at a hospital in Qingdao, ...

Doctors say complex congenital heart surgeries in Vietnam cost a fraction of those in developed countries, while treatment ...

Gayatri A. Acharya, MD: Greetings. I'm Dr Gayatri Acharya, cardiology fellow at Mayo Clinic. During today's recording, we'll be discussing living into adulthood with congenital heart disease in the ...

Congenital heart disease or defect is a common type of birth defect that needs medical attention. The exact cause is unclear, but it may be connected to genetic factors or the mother's health ...

A congenital heart defect is a condition you’re born with. Types of heart defects vary in severity — with some, you’ll need surgery as a child, while others don’t need treatment until later in life or ...

A Nigerian infant diagnosed with truncus arteriosus, a rare congenital heart defect, developed severe breathing problems at ...

Being born with a heart defect may be associated with an increased cancer risk for babies and their moms, according to new research published today in the American Heart Association's flagship journal ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Trish Lamley has pictures of her daughter, Gracyn Lamley, from 2012. That's when Gracyn was two years old. What should be a fun time is a hard one to look back on. "At two-years-old ...

The Dinwiddie Sports Complex is equipped with two new mobile AEDs to provide life-saving tools and protection for young ...