What do we know about congenital heart disease and coronavirus?
Mar 24, 2020
Cardiologists are working to understand how the new pandemic virus and COVID-19, the respiratory disease it causes, affects people living with heart defects.
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How anti-gay attitudes hurt teen fitness
Mar 12, 2020
Gay, lesbian and bisexual teens get less exercise than their heterosexual peers, and experts say attitudes around school sports can be part of the problem.
When an untreated infection leads to heart valve disease
Feb 21, 2020
Rheumatic heart disease, which can wreck heart valves when strep throat isn't treated, still kills 300,000 people worldwide each year.
Baby born with 'one-of-a-kind' heart receives transplant
Feb 11, 2020
Tessa Agnoli just turned 2. She's already had four open-heart surgeries – plus a transplant.
For kids with heart defects, the hospital near mom may matter
Feb 10, 2020
Living near a top-ranked pediatric cardiac center makes a difference for children with congenital heart disease, new research suggests.
High school basketball player saved by CPR helps win championship
Jan 28, 2020
Ben Blankenhorn survived a cardiac arrest. Then, he played in the title game of the high school basketball championship.
Baby survived 27 minutes without a heartbeat
Jan 16, 2020
This family's real-life event involving their daughter born with a serious congenital heart defect seems straight out of the movies.
She turns dirt bikers into science stars
Jan 7, 2020
Where some saw troublemakers on dirt bikes, the founder of B-360 saw a chance to develop African American engineers.
Serious heart defects increase heart failure risk in early adulthood
Nov 22, 2019
Children born with severe heart defects are at higher risk of developing heart failure or needing a heart transplant in early adulthood, a new study shows.
Congenital heart disease linked to neighborhood pollution, poverty
Nov 13, 2019
Serious heart defects are more likely in newborns from contaminated, economically deprived areas, a large study in California finds.