Treatment options include medications, dietary changes, lifestyle adjustments, and in severe cases, surgical correction.

Congenital Heart Disease is when someone has one or more problems with the heart's structure that are present at birth. To ...

Scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have uncovered new genetic interactions that may contribute ...

On the day he sat down for a newspaper interview, Dr. Robert Mangano had enlarged a stent in the heart of a 16-year-old girl ...

In El Paso, babies are born each year with congenital heart disease — some are diagnosed before birth, their tiny hearts ...

Over the past 15 years, the birth rate in the United States has dropped from 2.1 births per woman to 1.66, well below the birth rate needed to keep the population stable. This trend needs to be ...

From exposure to chemicals to nutritional deficiency, here are the most common causes that can lead to birth defects.

On World Birth Defects Day, WHO's Saima Wazed stresses the importance of awareness and prevention of birth defects. WHO urges ...

Birth defects claim the lives of about 300 children under five years of age in the South-East Asia region every day, said the ...

New research by KAUST scientists has identified that the gene "CIROZ" is responsible for pediatric heart defects and the ...

Congenital heart diseases include structural abnormalities present from birth. Common defects include patent ductus arteriosus and aortic stenosis. These conditions can cause heart murmurs ...

He’s usually so happy, she says, that you might not even know about his journey with congenital heart disease ... their child has a diagnosis of heart defect, I think their life is really ...