After eight years of training, Dr. Maureen McKiernan made her debut as the lead surgeon on an infant heart transplant — an ...

Each year, approximately 40,000 babies are born in the United States with a congenital heart defect — that’s one child every 15 minutes. Channel 11′s Susan Koeppen introduces us to a local boy born ...

In a promising science-fiction-meets-real-world story, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas have discovered that the mammalian newborn heart can heal itself completely. Researchers ...

We will stay with you until the end, so do not give up.” These were the words spoken by medical staff at Asan Medical Center, Seoul, to parents who pleaded for the life of their newborn, who was born ...

Virsaviya Borun, 14, has been told by doctors that she is not expected to live past 30 but her mother believes that because her daughter beat the odds once, she will do it again. A teen with a rare ...

NORTH BRANCH, Minn. -- Doctors are calling a North Branch baby's survival a miracle. Back in February, Owen Hubert spent the first 16 minutes of his life without oxygen and without a heartbeat. But ...

Your heart beats about 100,000 times a day. Sometimes it beats faster and sometimes more slowly, depending on what you're doing and whether, for instance, you're all worked up about something. So ...