Meet Riley, a remarkable boy who has undergone six heart surgeries by the age of nine. His inspiring story of resilience and ...

A COUPLE have shared how their miracle baby tragically died after she was sent home from hospital – despite their objections.

A miracle baby died at just a few months old despite surgeons doing everything they could to help her – but her parents say ...

In 2022, the fully domestic artificial heart, named "Rocket Heart", was launched and has since saved over 200 patients with ...

SARS-CoV-2 infection in children and adolescents increases risk for cardiovascular disease, compared with uninfected individuals.

Lori Glaser-Jester knows what it feels like to lose a child. She lost her son, Kaleb, at age 5 to Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome. To help her family and other families going through the loss of a ...

In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often lost their lives to devastating infectious diseases that ran ...

Children’s National Hospital appointed Wayne Franklin, MD, as senior vice president of its Heart Center. Just one year into his tenure, the hospital’s cardiac team achieved a milestone: performing the ...

William and Alana McIlrath are gearing up for their 'Hearty Hike' this September in aid of Children's Heartbeat Trust.

It was 1959 and Duguay, of Clearwater, Florida, had polio. It mostly preyed on children and was one of the most feared ...

Scientists from QIMR Berghofer's Cardiac Bioengineering Lab have developed lab-grown, three-dimensional heart tissues known ...