The special pacemaker inserted into Vice President Dick Cheney last weekend is a proven technology that has been around for more than a decade, Houston cardiologists said Monday. The small, ...

A small Tulsa school is now ready to save the life of a child or even a teacher, thanks to a recent donation of a life-saving piece of equipment, which the school wouldn’t otherwise be able to afford.

A new study shows that defibrillators – devices designed to detect and correct dangerous heart rhythms – can help people with heart disease live longer, and with a much better quality of life, than ...

For Natan Livschitz and other people with multiple sclerosis, an MRI is the single most important test their doctor has for diagnosing and tracking the debilitating central nervous system disease. But ...

If you've seen "ER" or pretty much any other medical show on TV, you've seen dramatic scenes of a defibrillator in action. The paddles placed on the patient's chest. The shout of "Clear!" The ...

Johns Hopkins biomedical engineering students have designed a lightweight, easy-to-conceal shirtlike garment to deliver lifesaving shocks to patients experiencing serious heart problems. The students ...

Johns Hopkins biomedical engineering students have designed a lightweight, easy-to-conceal shirtlike garment to deliver lifesaving shocks to patients experiencing serious heart problems. The students ...

An Orlando teenager is lucky to be alive after collapsing on the basketball court of an Orange County school.Xhosa Fray-Chinn didn't know he suffered from a heart condition until he collapsed while ...

(Corrects to show author quoted was Christian Machado and not Hamid Ghanbari) * Implantable devices may not reduce deaths in women * Women underrepresented in defibrillator studies * Future studies ...

When teaching others about AEDs, it is important to explain the three main types of defibrillators that currently exist. For basic life support, the AED is most often used. Another type of external ...