Early detection is key to saving infants with congenital heart defects Learn how prenatal diagnosis newborn screening and ...

Rheumatic heart disease starts from a sore throat or skin infection caused by streptococcus bacteria. While 97 per cent of ...

Audrey was in seventh grade when her bones started breaking: eight in total, over six months. Some of them broke dramatically, like her wrist, which fractured when she fell down a flight of stairs.

Metamora senior offensive lineman Owen Cabell had heart surgery at age 11, and now gives his whole heart to football.

The newborn hearing screening is designed to detect hearing abnormalities right after birth, since hearing loss is a common congenital condition among infants. In fact, roughly 2 or 3 out of every ...

Phthalates are part of a group of chemicals known as “endocrine disruptors” — which can interfere with the normal functioning of the body ... thousands of women in the country enrolled in the ECHO ...

A year before his death Johns Hopkins, a multi-millionaire Baltimore businessman, banker, Quaker philanthropist, created a visionary plan for a university and hospital that would bear his name and ...

A study led by UC San Francisco and UC Davis has concluded that radiation from medical imaging is associated with a higher ...

Emily Robichau said her family prepared for the worst when her 1-year-old son was diagnosed with a rare, aggressive tumor.

Jesse McIntosh hopes to be like Kansas City Royals shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. someday. The 8-year-old from Mansfield, Missouri, also wants to be a medical engineer and create devices like the one that ...

In many low- and middle-income countries, pediatric cardiologists can't help children with congenital heart conditions because of a critical hurdle. They don't have easy access to advanced diagnostic ...

A woman was "horrified" when her husband casually confessed to her that he had been having sex with a teenage girl. Paul Robinson disclosed his appalling crimes to his partner "as if it was quite ...