Implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) can save a failing heart with a shock. Now, they can be equipped with technology that lets them report on their users’ cardiac health as well. ICDs are ...

There have been several cases involving young athletes whose hearts suddenly stop beating while playing sports. Many of those cases involve a specific heart condition that puts young people at risk of ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An All-Conference football player at Greenville College in Illinois got his game intercepted by a life-threatening heart condition last year. However, he is making the best of his senior year by ...

During the testing phase, the research team was able to make one Medtronic device release sensitive patient information off its computer chip, and got it to fire improperly and run its battery down ...