March 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Valcare Medical Inc., a leading innovator in transcatheter-based mitral solutions, today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the AMENDtm ...

Transcatheter closure of perimembranous ventricular septal defects in children is a highly effective procedure, but it can result in tricuspid regurgitation (TR). The associated risk factors and ...

Intraoperatively, damage was identified at the junction of the anterior and septal leaflets. After surgery, TR improved to mild, and the right heart size reverted to normal. Prior to the procedure, ...

An atrial septal aneurysm (ASA) occurs when a bulge forms in the atrial septum, the membrane separating the heart's upper left and upper right chambers (atria). The atrial septum usually is relatively ...

24 February 2025 marks three years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. FIDH member organisations in Ukraine —the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (KHPG) and the Center for Civil ...

Vice President JD Vance is stepping in to help his 12-year-old relative who needs a heart transplant but was denied the lifesaving operation in Ohio because she’s not vaccinated against COVID-19 ...

Heart specialist Dr Stig Lundbäck was inspired by the pumping of the human heart to co-found Swedish wave energy company CorPower Ocean in 2009. Through years of hydrodynamic research ...

Reading Genesis to this point, one thing should stand out: the unity of the human family. Indeed, humanity is presented as a family that, as sin increasingly pervades the picture, is more and more ...

A new contender for a human 'language gene' can change the way that mice squeak when it is incorporated into their DNA. The gene is called NOVA1, and in our own species, it is remarkably unique. While ...

Objective Partial atrioventricular septal defect (pAVSD) is usually repaired between 2 and 4 years of age with excellent results. Repair during infancy has been associated with poorer outcomes.

(And by "huge" I mean really, really huge—possibly the biggest capital investments the human race has ever undertaken.) If that assumption is false and it can be done much more cheaply ...