Every year, an estimated 23,000 kids in the U.S. suffer a cardiac arrest, but a nonprofit is working to change that through ...

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 ...

A public awareness campaign helping the community understand "how to maintain and use defibrillators effectively" is expected ...

A new external defibrillator that is worn like a vest is helping to save the lives of heart disease sufferers, according to a Raleigh doctor who recommends it to many patients. A new external ...

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 ...

MAINTAINING an up-to-date register of where defibrillators are positioned could be crucial to saving lives, a local heart charity has said, amid uncertainty over the number and locations of the ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- You can shop over the Internet, pay bills, score a date for Saturday night and have your heart defibrillator checked there, too. The Food and Drug Administration has approved a ...

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 ...