Acquired comorbidities and lifestyle-related factors are linked to all-cause mortality in adults with congenital heart ...

Endomyocardial fibrosis is a rare type of heart disease in which abnormal fibrous tissue, similar to scar tissue, builds up ...

INDIANAPOLIS (April 15, 2026) - Twenty-five years ago, Melissa St. John lost her 16-month-old daughter Madelynn due to complications from 10 heart defects. Today Melissa’s decades-long work to honor ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and UCL have identified a gene that causes heart defects in Down syndrome, a condition that results from an additional copy of chromosome 21. Reducing the ...

Patients born with heart defects experience their first acute heart attack at a significantly earlier age than others. This is shown by a new national study from Lund University in Sweden. However, ...

DALLAS, Feb. 10, 2025 — Congenital heart defects (CHDs) are the most common birth defect in the U.S., affecting more than 40,000 infants each year.[1] To help health care professionals better ...

A new Maryland law requires mammography centers to notify patients if their scans show breast arterial calcification (BAC). Other states may follow suit.

Liz covers cardiovascular and metabolic disease, asking why we’re not doing better or even losing ground against the world’s leading killer. Send tips on Signal at LizC.22. Until Jennifer Cortes ...

For people at average risk, most leading medical organizations recommend starting regular mammograms at age 40 to check for ...

Time for a heart-to-heart. When we think of cardiovascular disease, we might associate conditions like irregular heartbeat or ...

More than 250 people gathered to fight heart disease Saturday at the County Heart Walk at SPIRE Academy, said Stephanie ...