When expectant parents imagine their baby’s beating heart, few consider the possibility of a structural issue being present from day one. Yet for thousands of families each year, this becomes reality ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Sayre Freshman who survived life-saving heart surgery as a newborn is now leading her school's participation in the ...

A pair of sisters have gone viral after their mom shared a video of the older sibling helping her younger sister, who has Down syndrome, with a dance routine. Nine-year-old Gracie and three-year-old ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The 2023 Chicago Congenital Heart Walk is coming up on June 10. The event raises money for The Children's Heart Foundation, which invests in research to diagnosis, treat and prevent ...

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 ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Congenital heart disease doesn't discriminate. That's what one Hamilton family found out even before their daughter, Wrenley Harris, was born. They're using February, American ...

When Jennifer Case was living in Los Angeles in her early 30s, she was hospitalized 11 times. She had been born with two rare heart abnormalities, Ebstein anomaly and Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.

While we already have an understanding of the trajectories of babies who undergo different surgical/interventional procedures ...

Runner gets open-heart surgery after childhood congenital heart defect surgery. Feb. 6, 2013— -- Like many relatively recent college graduates, Jane Lee wasn't always on top of her doctor's ...