This weekend marks the start of Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week, a time to highlight a condition that affects about ...

Further database analysis is needed to create accurate risk prediction models for surgical morbidity and mortality to aid ...

Dr. Lance Lewis, a cardiologist with Novant Health, was in the studio to discuss congenital heart disease and the importance ...

Today, leaders across the congenital heart disease (CHD) community announced the launch of Every 100th Heart (EHH), a national coalition dedicated to uniting patients, families and clinicians to ...

Heart specialists at Mayo Clinic today presented new research at the 2026 Society of Thoracic Surgeons Annual Meeting that ...

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 ...

Although the cause of death of prominent actress Catherine O’Hara — Schitt’s Creek, Beetlejuice, and Home Alone — is still unknown, she was diagnosed in adulthood with a rare congenital heart defect ...

From partial heart transplantation and complex biventricular repairs to innovative procedures in the catheterization ...

Catherine O'Hara's heart and organs were a mirror image of most people's. Though that is rare, congenital heart defects are fairly common.

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 ...

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 ...

Someone having a congenital heart defect (CHD) can sound like a serious condition. While it may be, many of these defects can ...