Texas Children's Hospital doctors and nurses born with heart defects are now treating kids enduring the same challenges.

A collaborative study reveals two kinds of scarring, dubbed hot and cold, in injured heart tissue, suggesting that treatments must take the type of scar into account Not all scars are created equal.

When someone suffers a heart attack, their heart is left permanently scarred and thus less capable of pumping blood. According to a new study, however, a protein injection could help undo such damage.

More than 300,000 people suffer a heart attack in Germany every year. The heart muscle is then no longer supplied with sufficient blood and oxygen, and part of the tissue dies and scars. Unlike the ...

As Eric and Cristina Conklin prepared to welcomed their first child, they learned that their son had a congenital heart defect that would need immediate treatment after his birth When Bennett was born ...

For all they do for us, our hearts aren't very good at repairing themselves. So when a person suffers a heart attack, their blood pump is left with a large amount of scar tissue, which can impede the ...

BOSTON—A new study by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), a founding member of the Mass General Brigham (MGB) healthcare system, reveals an important step to help the human heart ...

A 6-year-old girl and her kindergarten teacher have something very special in common: matching scars from their open-heart surgeries. Kennedy Vogt is a student at Lake Highland Preparatory School in ...

"I want to wear what he wears," dad Eric Conklin tells PEOPLE of his son Bennett, who was born with a congenital heart defect Eric Conklin/Instagram As Eric and Cristina Conklin prepared to welcomed ...