A medical breakthrough out of UVA Health as a team performs the first-of-its kind implantable heart defibrillator in Virginia. This is for patients who are at high risk of cardiac arrest or heart ...

Medtronic has received U.S. regulatory approval to sell a new implantable defibrillator that can be placed outside of the heart and veins to treat SCA — sudden cardiac arrest — an electrical problem ...

William S. Staewen, a co-inventor of the implantable heart defibrillator and a pioneer in biomedical engineering, died of congestive heart failure Sept. 19 at Frederick Health Hospital. He was 91 and ...

PANAMA CITY − A local hospital has successfully incorporated a new technology that officials believe will help save lives. According to a press release from Ascension Sacred Heart Bay, it is the first ...

The Cardiac Surgical Institute of Northwest Florida opened its new ambulatory surgery center Monday, treating its first patients with same-day cardiovascular procedures.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — With just weeks left before Byron Black’s scheduled execution, a Davidson County chancellor is weighing whether the state must remove a heart defibrillator from his chest ...

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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 ...

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 ...