SOUTH JORDAN, Utah, March 10, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Merit Medical Systems, Inc. (MMSI), a global leader of healthcare technology, today announced enrollment of the first patient in its multicenter, ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Amplatzer Piccolo Occluder (Abbott), the first medical device to treat patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) in premature babies weighing as little ...

Weighing little more than 3 pounds 7 ounces, tiny Marcellus Brown had a life-threatening problem with his blood flow, one that is common for preemies. To fix it, surgeons at most medical centers cut ...

It might be best to do nothing at all to treat a common heart defect among premature newborns Twice as many preemies treated with drugs for patent ductus arteriosus died compared to those placed under ...

ATLANTA, Ga. - “PDA, or Patent Ductus Arteriosus. It's a vessel that all of us, yourself included, had when you're inside of your mother and once you came out, it actually closed on its own,” ...

ATLANTA, Ga. (Ivanhoe Newswire) – Forty thousand babies a year are born with congenital heart disease – about one in four of those infants has a life threating condition that affects how the heart is ...

Twice as many preemies treated with drugs for patent ductus arteriosus died compared to those placed under observation Side effects of drug treatments might have unintended consequences for preemies, ...

ATLANTA, Ga. (Ivanhoe Newswire) - About one in four of the 40,000 babies born each year with congenital heart disease has a life-threatening condition that affects how the heart is shaped, how it ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Doctors say 40,000 babies are born with congenital heart disease every year. Nearly one in four of those infants has a life-threatening condition that affects how the heart is ...