Increase funding for Congenital Heart Defect research, the leading cause of birth defect related deaths.

We are petitioning the government to allocate more funding for Congenital Heart Defect (CHD) research. About 1 in 100 babies are born each year with some type of Congenital Heart Defect in the United States (approx. 40,000/year). Of those babies approximately 4000 will not live to celebrate their first birthday. Nearly twice as many children die from CHD's in the United States each year as from all forms of childhood cancers combined, yet funding for pediatric cancer research is five times higher than funding for CHD's. Please join CHD families in the fight to raise awareness and funding for our children.