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 ...

From partial heart transplantation and complex biventricular repairs to innovative procedures in the catheterization ...

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 ...

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 ...

When parents find out that their babies have a congenital heart condition can vary. While some patients are diagnosed during a well-baby visit, approximately 50% of the complex congenital heart ...

The term Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD) encompasses a range of structural cardiac anomalies that persist into adulthood, often as a consequence of improvements in paediatric diagnostics and ...

Dr. Mitchel Alpert once helped Kacie Baker deal with AVSD, a hole in her heart. She now leads a full life, but her son faces ...

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 ...

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 ...