LANSING — A new type of heart defibrillator was implanted for the first time in Michigan during a December procedure at E.W. Sparrow Hospital. The device is able to give a more normal life to people ...

Implanting defibrillators in patients just weeks after a heart attack does not improve their chances of survival, according to an international study. The researchers suggested instead that patients ...

The cardiac team at Virtua Health’s Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Camden successfully completed the first implant of a new type of defibrillator in a patient’s heart. The Lead Evaluation for ...

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 ...

A new study said one in five defibrillators are implanted in patients who don’t meet recommended guidelines, and complications and deaths are more frequent in those patients, according to a report by ...

Associate Professor Nguyen Lan Hieu, a respected medicine expert in Vietnam, believes that equipping public places with Automated External Defibrillator (AED) is an urgent need in Vietnam. At a ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday sent a warning letter to Abbott, charging the Chicago-based medical device provider with failing to reveal a deadly defect with defibrillators ...

CLAIM: British telephone booths are being retrofitted with defibrillators because the COVID-19 vaccines are causing more cardiac arrests. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. A movement to install defibrillators ...

BEVERLY — The city has installed automated external defibrillators at eight outdoor locations and is planning to add six more before the end of summer. The installations are part of a plan to ...