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 ...

February is National Heart Month. While many heart problems can affect anyone at any age, congenital heart defects are the most common types of birth defects, affecting one in every 100 babies each ...

A newborn's heart will grow roughly 15 times larger in volume by the time adulthood is reached — a remarkable transformation ...

Shabnam Peyvandi, MD, MAS (right), is a pediatric cardiologist at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals and senior author of the study that found that babies who did not respond to increased oxygen and ...

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 ...

A University of Houston pharmacology researcher and expert in cardiac development has identified a new cause of—and repair ...

A coordinated, multidisciplinary health care team to address the specific physical, psychological and developmental needs of children with Trisomy 21, or Down syndrome, and congenital heart disease ...

Australia's Murdoch Children's Research Institute is helping scientists use stem cell medicine and artificial intelligence to develop precision therapies for pediatric heart disease, the leading cause ...

Noida: Two children aged two and six underwent successful, minimally invasive procedures to close heart defects at Noida's ...

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 ...