While doctors may recommend medications and lifestyle changes to support overall heart health, these approaches cannot stop ...

February officially kicks off American Heart Month, a time to raise awareness of heart conditions and heart healthy ...

A newborn's heart will grow roughly 15 times larger in volume by the time adulthood is reached — a remarkable transformation that presents an extraordinary challenge for pediatric ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A non-surgically implanted heart valve meant to delay open heart surgery in children with congenital heart defects worked well for all but a few patients during a year of follow ...

Pilot of rapid access valve assessment clinics in England has indicated success in closing healthcare inequality gap ...

As you get older, you may expect to feel a little slower. Climbing the stairs might leave you feeling winded. Yard work takes ...

Large and rare duplications and deletions in a chromosome region known as 22q11.2 , which involves genes that regulate cardiac development, are linked to nonsyndromic bicuspid aortic valve disease, ...

R O C H E S T E R, N.Y., March 13 -- James Dauteuil probably never expected he would be wearing a piece of “leather” inside his heart. But Dauteuil, 76, is now one of three people in the Rochester ...

A heart murmur can sound scary—literally. A Keck Medicine of USC cardiologist explains why it might not be as scary as you ...

A congenital heart defect is a condition you’re born with. Types of heart defects vary in severity — with some, you’ll need surgery as a child, while others don’t need treatment until later in life or ...

Manipal: Kasturba Hospital, Manipal, successfully performed transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR), a minimally ...