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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A study published in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery suggests that prenatal detection of congenital heart disease (CHD) has improved in recent years, largely due to advances in ultrasound screening ...

How did your heart form? What triggered your first heartbeat? To this day, the mechanisms of human heart development remain elusive. Researchers know the heart is the first organ to fully function in ...

Researchers have discovered that a gene linked to congenital heart disease acts like an architect for the heart cell’s DNA. Losing just one copy of TBX5 can cause the genome’s carefully folded 3D ...

Renata’s lead product is Minima, a stent specifically designed to address congenital heart defects (CHD) in paediatric ...

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 ...

When Laurie Phan and her husband, Phanzy, learned their son, Sloan, had a congenital heart defect, each Google search they typed out seemed to return answers they didn't want to hear. "Obviously you ...