In patients younger than 19 with implantable cardioverter defibrillators, a lower body weight, indicating younger age, is ...

A new study from a research team at the Centre for Wireless Communications Network and Systems (CWC-NS) at the University of Oulu has introduced an approach using near-infrared (NIR) light beyond ...

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 ...

Findings were seen for ventricular arrhythmias or death at 1 year for patients with nonischemic cardiomyopathy. Valentina Kutyifa, M.D., Ph.D., from University of Rochester Medical Center in New York, ...

The researchers found that women with nonischemic cardiomyopathy and an implantable cardioverter defibrillator had a lower risk for ventricular tachyarrhythmias or death compared to men. HealthDay ...

Two Boston Scientific heart devices have been linked to serious injuries and deaths One device may fail to deliver life-saving shocks due to becoming calcified Heart devices like defibrillators make ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health regulators are warning doctors and patients about safety issues with two separate Boston Scientific heart devices recently linked to injuries and deaths. The Food and ...

A Tennessee death row inmate cried out in pain after the state refused to deactivate his implanted defibrillator as he was executed for murdering his girlfriend and her two young daughters. Byron ...