Links to Relevant News Articles
Baby becomes youngest person ever to have open heart surgery at 17-and-a-half hours old - Daily Mail
Baby Jaya's heart beats with the help of a pacemaker that was implanted 15 MINUTES after she born - Daily Mail
Proof heart disease is an ancient problem: Autopsy finds 3,500 year-old Egyptian princess had clogged arteries - Daily Mail
Live human heart grown in lab using stem cells in potential transplant breakthrough
Transplant - BBC 1 - 4th October 2011 - Click here for details
Congenital heart disease is a general term for a range of birth defects that affect the normal workings of the heart. Congenital means that a condition is present at birth.
Congenital Heart Disease
Grown Up Congenital Heart Patients Association - 22nd / 23rd October Cardiff National Patient Conference
Grown Up Congenital Heart Patients Association
Specialised Commissioning from NHS Specialised Services - 2nd September 2011
NHS Specialised Services is the national organisation responsible for the commissioning of specialised services that help improve the lives of children and adults with rare diseases or disorders.
Specialised Commissioning from NHS Specialised Services
BBC News ... pulse oximtery - 5th August 2011
Baby heart defect test 'could save lives'
South Wales Argus Article ... Caerwent family to help charity that helped their daughter - 6th January 2011
Read the South Wales Argus Article
Pictures from the Free Press Article


