Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nearly 40,000 infants in the U.S. are born each year with congenital heart defects—often described as holes in the heart. Why did ...

Ductal-dependent congenital heart disease involves a problem with the arteries that carry blood out of the heart. It’s usually discovered soon after birth, but medications and treatments can help ...

When it comes to matters of the heart, some conditions involve things we can impact, but others we have no control over. About one in 100 babies born in this country have some sort of heart defect.