When does your baby develop a heartbeat? A baby's heartbeat (at this point a fluttering of cells) starts as early as to 4 weeks after conception or 6 weeks after the first day of the last menstrual ...

Peripartum cardiomyopathy, which is a serious form of heart failure that develops during the last few weeks of a pregnancy or a few months postpartum. Arrhythmias, or abnormal heart rates, during ...

Around the globe, heart disease remains one of the top causes of death. Once patients begin to suffer from serious heart problems, like heart attacks and heart failure, the heart muscles become ...

Using a combination for spatial, single-cell transcriptomics and imaging data from 36 hearts, scientists from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology and their collaborators have come up with what they ...

“Structural heart disease” is an umbrella term that refers to conditions that affect different structures within the heart. Some of these problems can be present at birth, while others develop later ...

Re “Doctors Stick With Unreliable Medical Tool to Justify C-Sections” (front page, Nov. 7): As the president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, I found that this article, ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — February is Heart Month, a time to wear red, learn CPR, and think about heart health at every stage of life. But for thousands of families across the country, heart disease ...

Transplant patients are at higher risk for pregnancy complications including pre-eclampsia, high blood pressure, pre-term ...