One to two out of every 100 newborn babies are born with a Congenital Heart Defect (CHD), yet the exact cause remains unclear. Human geneticists at the University Medicine Oldenburg (Germany) have now ...

Newborns with a heart defect may have two strikes against their future health, rather than one. Babies with heart birth defects appear to have a higher risk of developing childhood cancer, compared to ...

The research has come from the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, in the U.S. the focus is on how cellular stress affected congenital defects of the heart, plus other organs like the kidneys. A ...

Approximately 8 out of every 1,000 newborns are affected by a congenital heart defect. CHDs remain the most common type of ...

Congenital heart defects are the most common birth defects in the United States. For newborns with the most severe ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A year ago, Emily Ferrer wasn’t sure what the future would look like for her youngest daughter. “There was a lot of, just, the ...

Today, Brooks Klingsporn is a happy 1-and-a-half-year-old baby. However, he's already had more heart surgeries than most people get in a lifetime — including one before he was even born. Last year, ...

January 19, 2007 — Birth defects are leading causes of pediatric hospitalizations and medical expenditures, and account for about 20% of total infant deaths, according to findings from a study ...

Josie Spahic was born with a congenital heart defect and died at six months old.

When 13-month-old Dia Elizabeth Manzo began crouching last May, her parents didn't worry. They thought that Dia, who had started walking at eight months, might be showing off a new trick, or else ...