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Mark Feuerstein faced a dilemma shared by many parents of severely ill children: the agony of going to work every day while your spouse sits in the hospital with a very sick child. The difference: He

Ten years after Desiree’s third open-heart surgery for congenital heart defects at CHLA’s Heart Institute, her family knew exactly where they needed to be when it was time for her fourth and fifth.

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Hematology-Oncology Nurse Sona Daldumyan uses her own experience of tragedy and perseverance to help her patients.

When it comes to baseball, “heart” is one of those intangibles in a player that scouts covet. Generally, the word refers to a variety of attributes including hustle, mental fortitude, patience and

Born with the same heart defect, father-and-son Jeff and Bryce had their lives saved decades apart by the same surgeon at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.

All parents face tough questions from their children, but Cynthia Harkins has had to answer some particularly poignant questions from her son, David. “He asked me once if he really has half a heart,”

At birth, it seemed Jaxon’s only hope was a procedure that would leave him with “half a heart.” But once in surgery, everything changed.

A young boy is diagnosed with ARCAPA, a congenital heart defect so rare that the CHLA cardiologist who diagnosed the condition had never encountered it before in more than two decades of pediatric