Not even ten children are born a year in India with this particular congenital heart disease and 99 per cent will succumb to the defect before the age of ten. This boy recovered well and is being discharged on Friday after his heart functions reported normal now.

The rest of the impure blood was leaking through a hole in the heart to mix with purified blood making the entire circulatory system impure. The boy became bluish. It was one of the most challenging cases.

My average Medicare patient has heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and then a few other things you want to throw in there. They're the most vulnerable patients we have out there except for the infant. We have some excellent drugs to help treat them, but a lot of them have fixed incomes, and they need the help.

It's as important for children to know how to prevent heart disease, cancer and diabetes as it is for children to learn geography, ... These are important life skills that are not intuitively obvious.

We were surprised that sibling cardiovascular heart disease may actually be a stronger risk factor than parental cardiovascular disease.

Having a sibling with cardiovascular disease increases your risk for a heart attack by as much as 45 percent compared to people without a sibling with cardiovascular disease.