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 ...

AEDs, or public defibrillators, are designed to be used by anyone. Try to stay calm and follow the directions that the device gives you. Share on Pinterest Aria sandi Hasim/Getty Images A ...

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 ...

It felt like something inside me wound up and sucker-punched me from the inside out. The air around me got heavy.

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, ...

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 ...

FLINT, MI -- The city is upgrading emergency response tools for firefighters on Flint ambulances that went into service just nine months ago. Mayor Sheldon Neeley and Fire Chief Theron Wiggins ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PANAMA CITY − A local hospital has successfully incorporated a new technology that officials believe will help save lives.

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 ...