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 ...

Every minute spent waiting for a first shock from a defibrillator cuts the odds of surviving cardiac arrest by 6%, a new Dutch study finds. Photo by Mikhail Nilov/Pexels Oct. 28 (UPI) --Every minute ...

Hamilton Medical Center’s cardiac team is the first in the region to introduce the world’s smallest defibrillation lead for ...

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 ...

A Ramsbottom man who survived a sudden cardiac arrest on holiday has helped to install a new public defibrillator on his garage wall in Ramsbottom ...

CHICAGO (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 doctors, ...

A medical breakthrough out of UVA Health as a team performs the first-of-its kind implantable heart defibrillator in Virginia. This is for patients who are at high risk of cardiac arrest or heart ...

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 ...

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 ...

GREELEY, Colorado, Jan. 22-- Aims Community College issued the following current news: Aims Community College's EMS program received a Zoll X Series Cardiac Monitor / Defibrillator donated from ...

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 ...