Shopping. Traveling. Planning family gatherings. The stress of the holiday season can make you feel like you need to slip some spirits into your hot cocoa. And at celebrations, there's often plenty of ...

Long QT syndrome is a leading cause of sudden death in young persons, with a prevalence exceeding 1 in 2000. It is characterized by prolongation of the QT interval, aberrant T-wave morphologic ...

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 ...

Liliana Castaneda, with Turner syndrome, was diagnosed with rare clear cell carcinoma of the vagina at 14, unrelated to her condition. Her treatment involved five chemotherapy rounds, external beam ...

Today, Brooks Klingsporn is a happy 1-and-a-half-year-old baby. However, he's already had more heart surgeries than most people get in a lifetime — including one before he was even born. Last year, ...

After decades of mystery, researchers at Gladstone Institutes identify a gene that can derail heart formation—and show that fixing it prevents the problem in mice. SAN FRANCISCO—October 22, ...

Nearly half of all babies born with Down syndrome face congenital heart defects, often involving serious malformations that require surgery in the first months of life. For decades, scientists have ...

The son of Tina and Ike Turner, Ike Turner Jr., has died. He was 67. Tina’s niece Jacqueline Bullock told TMZ on Sunday, October 5, that Ike Jr. died in Los Angeles as a result of kidney failure. She ...