Group Launches First Internet Registry Of Women With Pregnancy-Related Heart Failure

Researchers at St. Vincent's Catholic Medical Center Manhattan have partnered with an Internet-based support group called A Mother's Heart to launch the first online registry of women with pregnancy-related heart failure, USA Today reports. The researchers are using A Mother's Heart's Web site to recruit women with the condition, called peripartum cardiomyopathy, in an effort to study the disease.