Using light pulses as a model for electrical defibrillation, scientists developed a method to assess and modulate the heart function. The research team has thus paved the way for an efficient and ...

First-of-its-kind Aurora EV-ICD™ system offers single device, single procedure with lead placed outside of heart and veins FDA approval of the Medtronic Aurora EV-ICD system includes the system's ...

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 ...

Rochester police and Mayo Clinic have helped lead the way in providing research showing the benefits of having an external heart defibrillator available to save people’s lives. But now it’s the ...

A cardiac ventricular arrhythmia can be converted to a normal sinus rhythm (white line) by using a sequence of light pulses (blue line) in an optogenetic mouse heart. Applying such pulsed light, ...

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 -- It sounds futuristic: drones carrying heart defibrillators swooping in to help bystanders revive people stricken by cardiac arrest. Researchers tested the idea and found drones arrived at ...

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 ...

Rochester police and Mayo Clinic have helped lead the way in providing research showing the benefits of having an external heart defibrillator available to save people’s lives. But now it’s the ...

Researchers at the University of Oxford have developed a miniature, soft lithium-ion battery for biomedical applications like heart tissue defibrillation and pacing. The battery, made from ...

Hamilton Medical Center’s cardiac team is the first in the region to introduce the world’s smallest defibrillation lead for patient care — a tool designed to help recipients keep implanted ...

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 ...