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.

A Long Island hospital is the first in the nation to implant a novel defibrillator outside a patient’s heart and veins. Cardiologists at the Sandra Atlas Bass Heart Hospital at North Shore University ...

Guam Memorial Hospital Authority said it performed its first-ever implantable cardioverter defibrillator procedure, a ...

Physicians at Mercy Fort Smith are among the first in Arkansas to implant a new type of defibrillator. The Medtronic EV-ICD places a lead under the breastbone instead of inside the heart or veins.

A North Dakota woman is now the first in the state to receive a life-saving device for a rare heart condition commonly found in men.

Physicians from The Heart Institute of East Texas, in collaboration with St. Luke’s Health-Memorial Lufkin, are among the first in the region to successfully implant a groundbreaking extravascular ...

Every year an estimated 1.5 million magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans are performed in Canada and the number is growing at a rate of about 10 per cent per year. At the same time, a soaring number ...

More than 6.5 million Americans are living with heart failure. In the next five years, that number will grow to 8.5 million people. It’s the leading cause of death for men and women. It’s a ...

Electrophysiologists Roy Sauberman, MD, and David Dobesh, MD, are the first cardiac specialists to implant subcutaneous defibrillators at the Barnabas Health Heart Center at Newark Beth Israel Medical ...