For more than a century, cardiovascular disease has remained the leading cause of death in the U.S. Yet these last 100 years ...

A large provider of public defibrillators in Yorkshire is concerned about changes in their use.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Electrocardiograms, or ECGs, record the electrical activity of your heart. Randy Faris/The Image Bank via Getty Images Your ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - A jolt from an implanted defibrillator is a very bad sign -- heart failure patients are about six times more likely to die after they receive their first life-saving shock, ...

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 ...

LANSING — A new type of heart defibrillator was implanted for the first time in Michigan during a December procedure at E.W. Sparrow Hospital. The device is able to give a more normal life to people ...

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 ...

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 ...

Metro is inspecting all of its defibrillators after one failed to work Monday when a 51-year-old rider suffered a fatal heart attack on the Yellow Line. The agency announced the news after The ...

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 ...