Every morning, Donna Whitworth turns on two device monitors for her heart. For the first device, she puts on a belt, which is hooked up to a laptop. When the belt is in the proper position, the ...

"I noticed I was having abnormal heartbeats where I felt like I would need to catch my breath," said Adamy. A single mom with a career in health care and two young children, Adamy chalked up her ...

During his regular checkup, a 9-year-old clouded leopard named Masala undergoes a procedure to get a tiny heart monitor implanted under his skin at the Smithsonian's Conservation Biology Institute in ...

Gaithersburg, MD - The FDA's Circulatory System Devices Panel yesterday voted against the approval of Medtronic's implantable hemodynamic monitor, the pacemaker-sized Chronicle, a trailblazing, purely ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – A new device is helping save the lives of people at a heightened risk of sudden cardiac death brought on by an abnormal heartbeat. The Medtronic Aurora EV-ICD acts as a 24/7 ...

Dallas, TX - Patients with heart failure implanted with a sensor that measures left atrial (LA) pressure used the device, in a small pilot study, to guide day-to-day adjustments to diuretic dosages, a ...

GAITHERSBURG, Md., March 1 (Reuters) - A U.S. advisory panel on Thursday voted 9-2 against recommending approval of a Medtronic Inc. implantable device that monitors the heart and sends data to ...

A team of scientists Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, has developed the world's smallest medical implant to monitor critical chemicals in the blood, and communicates ...

An Iowa woman is suing a medical device company alleging she had a pacemaker mistakenly implanted after a heart monitor gave her doctors data from the wrong patient. (Des Moines Register) A defamation ...