Dallas, June 6, 2017 – The American Heart Association (AHA) and The Children’s Heart Foundation (CHF) announced today the third round of recipients for the Congenital Heart Defect (CHD) Research Awards, a research program co-funded by the AHA and CHF. Five research programs were selected to receive a total of $561,798 in funding. The CHD Research Awards will fund more than $22 million in CHD-specific research through 2021. To date, more than $2.42 million has been awarded.

An Australian woman with pulmonary stenosis has undergone numerous heart procedures, including three valve replacements, in her 44 years of life. After all the challenges Julianna Suranyi has overcome, she has no time for the social stigma associated with the jagged scar on her chest.

In a June 5 release, Claret Medical announced it had received regulatory clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its Sentinel Cerebral Protection System. The device protects against stroke during transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) by capturing debris dislodged during the procedure.

A new study from the University of Arizona finds that sleeping in after a late night out could increase the chances of developing heart disease, reports Newsweek.

A new study reports that emerging surgical techniques used to perform more extensive surgical repairs of type A dissection is improving long-term outcomes for patients.

The American Heart Association (AHA) adopted new recommendations in January for women with congenital heart defects who wanted to have children. A Washington Post article examines the case of one mother who may otherwise been unable to survive her pregnancy.

Englishman John McCafferty holds the record as the world's longest surviving heart transplant patient. At the time of his surgery in the fall of 1982, physicians estimated he’d live five years. He lived another 30 on top of that—working, enjoying family, running half marathons, traveling, fundraising for a transplant support charity and trout fishing—before passing away just last summer.

Memphis, in the heart of the stroke belt, has a new weapon in decreasing the time it takes to deliver life-saving care.