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 ...

A Congenital Heart Walk will be held in Gilbert on Sept. 21 at Gilbert Regional Park. It is one of 33 heart walks held across the country for an issue the CDC says is the most common type of birth ...

Baby Estelle was born with an extremely large ventricular septal defect (VSD) and has been hospitalized in the PICU since ...

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 ...

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 ...

CAVE SPRINGS -- Grant Greene was born with a heart defect that required multiple surgeries in his first weeks. Six years and one full recovery later, his family continues to share his story to educate ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A pair of siblings born with the same rare heart condition are alive today because of surgeries within two weeks of birth. They both have a congenital heart defect, but 4-year-old ...

Physician Assistant Emily Warf got to know Elijah as he spent the first five months of his life in the Pediatric Intensive ...