A new high-tech help for young heart patients has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Doctors say this will allow them to save more lives, an important milestone as we kick off ...

Choon-Sik Jhun, associate professor of surgery at Penn State College of Medicine, holds a prototype for a pediatric heart pump. With support from a new NIH grant, Jhun and his collaborators will test ...

Nataly Paramó was preparing to celebrate her 15th birthday in October when she experienced unexpected and alarming fatigue during basketball tryouts. The teen from East Chicago, Indiana, had always ...

The federal government has halted previously approved funding for the study and manufacturing of a pediatric heart pump developed by researchers at Ithaca, N.Y.-based Cornell University. Engineering ...

The device is about the size of a AA battery, and it has the potential to help a baby or infant heart keep beating in the face of failure. It's called the PediaFlow, an implantable artificial heart ...

Although you may not think of children when you imagine someone with heart problems, congenital heart defects are actually the most common birth defect in the U.S., occurring in about 1% of births.

Advocate Children's Hospital formally launched its pediatric heart transplant program at the Oak Lawn hospital today, having performed three heart transplants since December. The hospital's program ...