Jessica Eastes was a cardiac nurse when she learned she was in heart failure and would need a transplant to survive.

She was born with three holes in her heart, blood vessels connected to the wrong organ, no spleen and an enlarged liver. Lucy Pearson's grip on life was so slender that her parents prepared to say ...

On 7 March 2025, the Changshu People’s Court (in China’s Jiangsu province) announced that it had recently concluded a case on the topical issue ...

Each year, approximately 40,000 babies are born in the United States with a congenital heart defect — that’s one child every 15 minutes. Channel 11′s Susan Koeppen introduces us to a local ...

Jessica Eastes had a feeling she would end up working in the field of cardiology. Born blue due to lack of oxygen — "I looked like a Smurf," she tells PEOPLE — she was diagnosed with a ...