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 ...

Some portable tech devices equipped with powerful magnets can interfere with your heart implant's ability to regulate dangerous irregular heart rhythms, a new study reports. Swiss researchers found ...

When Bill Staudt pushed for an AED device to be placed in his department's building, he didn't know it was his own life that would be saved by it Jason Hahn is a former Human Interest and Sports ...

Surgery to replace potentially defective heart defibrillators carries an unexpectedly high rate of serious complications, including death, according to a study published today. The research in the ...

A rural Manitoba man whose life was saved by a defibrillator says his story should be a wakeup call to other communities to get the device. Perry Batchelor, a police officer in the community of Altona ...

A novel bipolar conduction system pacing implantable cardioverter defibrillator lead demonstrated short-term safety and ...

PORTAGE, MI — Stryker Corp. has announced a voluntary recall on some of its defibrillator devices after complaints of malfunctions, including six cases in which someone died after a delay in therapy, ...

Fiorentina midfielder Edoardo Bove will have have a removable internal defibrillator device fitted on Tuesday after suffering a cardiac arrest on the pitch during the Serie A match against Inter last ...

Medical-device startups are booming these days, as VCs throw money at everything from artificial spinal-disc fillers to implantable weight-control “neuromodulators” to vacuum devices that suck blood ...

A half-dozen security vulnerabilities recently identified in older versions of the Zoll Defibrillator Dashboard could allow a remote attacker to take control of the device management platform, ...