A novel bipolar conduction system pacing implantable cardioverter defibrillator lead demonstrated short-term safety and ...

A vest containing a defibrillator may be an option for some heart patients who can't use an implantable defibrillator -- the device that can shock the heart back to a proper rhythm if needed. That's ...

Developing a capacitor for the "world’s smallest AED" showed that reducing the size of critical components may actually ...

Defibrillators and pacemakers help the heart maintain a regular rhythm. Defibrillators deliver a shock if the heart goes into arrhythmia. Pacemakers use electrical impulses to keep the heart from ...

Jon LaPook, M.D. is the award-winning chief medical correspondent for CBS News. Since joining CBS News in 2006, LaPook has delivered more than 1,200 reports on a wide variety of breaking news and ...

We've seen flying drones designed to deliver food and even beer on command, but a new autonomous aircraft from a non-profit organization in Germany could provide medical equipment to remote areas in ...

Defibrillators that jump-start a stopped heart may save lives in airports and shopping malls, but few people keep them at home in case of collapse — even though that’s where most cardiac arrests occur ...

The wearable cardiac monitor and defibrillator developer Kestra Medical Technologies aims to raise about $154 million by going public on the Nasdaq, with plans to greatly scale up its commercial ...

Defibrillators are used when a person is in cardiac arrest to restore a normal heartbeat, but would you know what to do if an alarming incident occurs? According to the British Heart Foundation, there ...

"People were refused three times to bring the defibrillator outside," Nazarova wrote. “The man did not live to see it. The ...