A blood test clarifies which gene variants truly cause congenital heart defects, linking diagnosis to more precise ...

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 ...

Congenital heart defects (abnormalities of the heart that are present at birth) are the most common type of birth defect and, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 1 in 4 ...

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 ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Congenital heart defects (CHDs) are abnormalities in the ...

The diagnosis was made after an initial evaluation at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and follow-up visits to the Mayo Clinic and New Jersey's Atlantic Health/Morristown Medical Center. The ...

Infants born to Latino, low-income or limited-English-speaking parents are more likely to be diagnosed later with congenital heart disease than white infants – or lack a prenatal diagnosis at all, a ...

Researchers have developed a biodegradable patch engineered from human cells that could one day be used to correct infant congenital heart defects, limiting the need for multiple invasive surgeries ...

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 ...