San Clemente-based cardiac device company AtaCor Medical announced a collaboration with Abbott Laboratories to develop a next ...

New trial results that could double the patients who are eligible to use heart defibrillators had shares in the health-care companies that make the devices racing on Wednesday. Guidant Corp. said a ...

CHICAGO, April 21 (Reuters) - Heart patients who get a defibrillator from doctors who specialize in the heart's electrical system fare better than those whose devices are implanted by other types of ...

Dr. Richard Page answers the question: 'Are There Defibrillators Without Leads?' — -- Question: I have heard that some defibrillators may not need leads to be placed in the heart. Is this true, ...

Jesse McIntosh hopes to be like Kansas City Royals shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. someday. The 8-year-old from Mansfield, Missouri, also wants to be a medical engineer and create devices like the one that ...

Using light pulses as a model for electrical defibrillation, scientists developed a method to assess and modulate the heart function. The research team has thus paved the way for an efficient and ...

Ray J's doctors are giving him every drug under the sun in an attempt to prolong his life ... prescribing eight different ...

Alex Chadwick talks to John Dimsdale of Marketplace about a New York Times report suggesting that medical device maker Guidant knowingly sold faulty heart defibrillators. Back now with DAY TO DAY. I'm ...

Oct. 8 -- WEDNESDAY, Oct. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Implanting a defibrillator in the first weeks after a heart attack does not improve survival, a major European study shows. Fewer deaths from sudden ...

New details are emerging in the untimely death of WWE star Bray Wyatt. According to a report from TMZ, Wyatt, real name Windham Rotunda, was taking a nap when he had a fatal heart attack but wasn’t ...