Patients born with heart defects experience their first acute heart attack at a significantly earlier age than others. This ...

On April 30, 2019 — the day Walker turned 3 months old — Nicole and her husband Brian handed their son over to surgeons for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Artificial intelligence can help doctors detect fetal heart defects, improving newborns' chances of survival, a new study says. AI-aided analysis of prenatal ultrasounds detected heart defects more ...

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 ...

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 ...

Maternal SARS-CoV-2 infection during pregnancy was not associated with an increased risk of congenital anomalies in newborns, ...

Mezzion Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a late-stage rare disease biopharmaceutical company focused on therapies for patients with single ventricle congenital heart disease and Fontan circulation, today ...

Health systems are increasingly deploying AI to improve diagnosis, accelerate decision-making and support preventive care.