The federal government has halted previously approved funding for the study and manufacturing of a pediatric heart pump developed by researchers at Ithaca, N.Y.-based Cornell University. Engineering ...

The cardiac surgery team at Washington, D.C.-based Children’s National Hospital has become the first in the world to replace an artificial heart valve with a live tissue valve through a partial heart ...

An 11-year-old boy recently became the first person in the world to have an artificial heart valve replaced with a living ...

An 11-year-old Maryland boy is making medical history after becoming the first person in the world to have an artificial ...

James Antaki has worked for over 30 years on a device to help infants with holes in their hearts and other defects. Now it’s ...

ESME Atkinson was just one month old when she died due to a “hole in her heart” – which was only discovered during a ...

A Connecticut doctor said many adult patients with this congenital condition for many years after surgery do not have a ...