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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - Next week is Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week (Feb. 7-14). Each year, the American Heart Association works with The Children’s Heart Foundation to jointly fund ...

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 ...

The incidence of babies born with serious heart defects, known as cyanotic congenital heart disease (CCHD), rose in states that enacted restrictive abortion laws following the U.S. Supreme Court's ...

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 ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - From heart disease to abnormal heart rhythms, without awareness of them some of these conditions can go unseen. That’s why organizers are holding a pediatric “Walk With A ...

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 ...

For Jibran Bashi, the new contract deal between Blue Cross and Michigan Medicine means treatment for his congenital heart ...

There is a link between certain types of migraines in children and a common congenital heart defect. Migraine with aura includes a number of symptoms, such as blind spots, weakness and hallucinations.