Until now, there have been few therapeutic options for children with severely reduced heart pump function. Recently, surgical ...

New research in Sweden has produced a "blueprint" revealing how the human heart is built during prenatal development. It offers insights that could lead to improved prenatal care and new treatments ...

New clues from genetic research may help explain what causes the most common heart defect present at birth. Researchers at ...

Researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC have made an important advance toward understanding—and potentially ...

Prenatal oxycodone exposure changes how the placenta sends signals to the fetus. A new study revealed how alterations in the protein composition of placental small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) impact ...

How did your heart form? What triggered your first heartbeat? To this day, the mechanisms of human heart development remain elusive. Researchers know the heart is the first organ to fully function in ...

Fibroblasts are an essential component of the heart, as they play key roles in its structure, development and response to ...

A recent study published in the journal Scientific Reports observed that maternal heart rate variability (mHRV) at three months postpartum is associated with infant neurophysiology and maternal mental ...

Shabnam Peyvandi, MD, MAS (right), is a pediatric cardiologist at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals and senior author of the study that found that babies who did not respond to increased oxygen and ...