Former US Vice President Dick Cheney, who died on 3 November aged 84, lived far longer than most people with such an ...

In 2010, Dick Cheney received an LVAD device ahead of a heart transplant, which resulted in him possibly living with no pulse ...

KIRKLAND, Wash., Nov. 04, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kestra Medical Technologies, Ltd. (Nasdaq: KMTS), a wearable medical device and digital healthcare company, today announced its participation in the ...

T he late Paul O’Grady, who died aged 67 in March 2023 from sudden cardiac arrhythmia, refused a key operation shortly before ...

According into American Heart Association, about 436,000 people in the U.S. die from cardiac arrest. Only about 40% get the ...

William S. Staewen, a co-inventor of the implantable heart defibrillator and a pioneer in biomedical engineering, died of congestive heart failure Sept. 19 at Frederick Health Hospital. He was 91 and ...

Findings were seen for ventricular arrhythmias or death at 1 year for patients with nonischemic cardiomyopathy. Valentina Kutyifa, M.D., Ph.D., from University of Rochester Medical Center in New York, ...

A Tennessee death row inmate cried out in pain after the state refused to deactivate his implanted defibrillator as he was executed for murdering his girlfriend and her two young daughters. Byron ...

Gov. Bill Lee declined to grant a reprieve Monday amid uncertainty about whether the implantable defibrillator will shock Byron Black's heart when... NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee is gearing up for an ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee officials must deactivate a death-row inmate's implanted heart-regulating device to avert the risk that it might try to shock him during his lethal injection, a judge ...