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2/11/2010 – Scientists obtain funding to improve heart-assist devices for infants with congenital heart problems

2/04/2010 – NHLBI Funds Preclinical Tests on Devices for Infants and Children with Congenital Heart Defects

1/19/2010 – How a Virginia family got permission to get out-of-network treatment for one son's heart defect, and still ended up drowning in debt.

11/2/2009 – Heart Valve Implanted in Boy With Swine Flu

11/2/2009 – CDC Study Links 2 Antibiotics to Birth Defects

10/26/2009 – Tech-savvy surgeon a medical ambassador for repairing cardiac defects

9/18/2009 – The Dirty Little Secret of HLHS

5/9/2009 – First in Canada: baby has heart procedure while inside her mother's womb and is now doing fine

3/18/2009 – Houston's Boone to have open heart surgery

3/18/2009 – For the First Time in U.S. History, Congress Addresses the Needs of the Congenital Heart Defect Population by Introducing the 'Congenital Heart Futures Act'

3/16/2009 – Aortic valve replacement keeps the blood flowing

11/23/2008 – Doctor was pioneer in U.S. heart transplant

1/23/2009 – Software Improves and Predicts Outcome of Lifesaving Children's Heart Surgery in 3D

1/7/2009 – Doctors Excited About 'Breakthrough' Heart-Valve Procedure

1/3/2009 – Collegiate swimmer plunges headlong into life after a brush with mortality

11/19/2008 – Teen lives 4 months with no heart, leaves hospital

11/17/2008 – Birth defect risk raised by in vitro fertilization


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11/10/2008 – No drop in IQ seen after bypass for child heart surgery

11/10/2008 – Cord Blood Stem Cells May Help Repair Babies' Heart Defects

11/7/2008 – ACC/AHA guidelines break new ground in adult congenital heart disease

11/5/2008 – Diagnosis of congenital heart disease still frequently missed or delayed

10/30/2008 – The National Institutes of Health (NIH) have approved ACHA's first ACHD research study!

10/29/2008 – Artificial heart borrows from plane technology

10/27/2008 – Gladstone scientists identify single microRNA that controls how heart chambers form


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9/16/2008 – Mayo researchers use stem cells to repair heart defect

8/27/2008 – FDA OKs blood test for heart transplant rejection

8/20/2008 – Finding the "Lost" Survivors of Congenital Heart Defects:

4/30/2008 – All About Heart: Union's Takayoshi runs to the front after heart surgery

4/25/2008 – Actavis Totowa (formerly known as Amide Pharmaceutical, Inc.) recalls all lots of Bertek and UDL Laboratories Digitek (digoxin tablets, USP) as precaution

4/24/2008 – Mom overcomes matters of the heart to have children

4/23/2008 – Exciting Times for Heart-assisting Devices

4/10/2008 – New Grants Available for Families Struggling with Child Health-Related Expenses

3/27/2008 – Here's a video clip of a young man, Bryan Rothlein of Safety Harbor, FL, who was born 31 years ago with HLHS who today is a successful veterinarian.

2/7/2008 – FDA approves CryoLife heart valve

1/31/2008 – Congenital heart defects increasing among IVF twins

1/29/2008 - Bruins, AHA to Host 'Go Red' Awareness Night

1/28/2008 – STS: Percutaneous Pulmonary Stents to Remedy Stenosis in Repaired Valves

1/18/2008 – Boy's heart repaired in pioneer procedure

1/17/2008 – Miami Children's Hospital's (MCH) Congenital Heart Institute, performed the world's first non-surgical tricuspid valve replacement via catheter

1/14/2008 - Beating heart grown in U of M lab

1/7/2008 - Ultrasound Gives Unique View Of Unborn Fetuses

12/20/2007 - For Babies With Heart Defects, Death Risk Is Far Lower At Most Experienced Hospitals

12/7/2007 - Doctor's software helps 3D ultrasounds detect fetal heart defects

9/11/2007 - Advance Reported in Heart Valves for Children

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