People with a certain heart valve abnormality are at increased risk of severe heart rhythm disorders, even after successful valve surgery. The condition is more common in women and younger patients ...

Valvular heart disease (VHD) is a potentially fatal condition, yet it's difficult to diagnose with a regular stethoscope. A ...

Cardiac Dimensions, a Kirkland, Wash., company with a technology to treat heart valve malfunction, has raised $53 million from investors. Its total funding is more than $200 million. Cardiac ...

For conditions such as truncus arteriosus and severe aortic stenosis without good function, infants not only need new heart valves and arteries to survive, but the new tissue also needs to grow ...

Mayor Nic Hunter on Wednesday announced the city’s plan to purchase the former location of the Golden Arms Senior Living facility on 3rd Street and build a new state-of-the-art Purple Heart ...

But 3D printing isn’t the only way to build polymer structures, as [Riley] shows us with this fascinating attempt to create electrospun heart valves. Now, you may never have heard of ...