Jesse McIntosh hopes to be like Kansas City Royals shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. someday. The 8-year-old from Mansfield, Missouri, also wants to be a medical engineer and create devices like the one that ...

Background Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is a common cause of cardiovascular mortality, often triggered by ventricular ...

CHICAGO, April 21 (Reuters) - Heart patients who get a defibrillator from doctors who specialize in the heart's electrical system fare better than those whose devices are implanted by other types of ...

The new defibrillator, made by Boston Scientific, doesn't require the leads. Instead, it sits just under the skin on the left side of a patient's rib cage near the armpit, and the lead is threaded ...

The Springfield Fire Department is enhancing its life-saving efforts with the installation of the newest FDA-approved cardiac ...

"You guys all really just came together in a really cool way. You saved that guy’s life," comedian Drew Lynch said on stage after the crowd helped a man who collapsed mid-show.

"By a miracle of God and the efforts of people in that room that night, they were able to revive him," comedian Drew Lynch ...

In the most deprived areas of England and Scotland, the nearest 24/7 accessible defibrillator is on average a round trip of 1.8 km away — over a mile — according to a pioneering study supported by the ...

HEART attacks may not just be caused by cholesterol, poor diet, smoking, and high blood pressure, say scientists. For the first time, researchers have demonstrated how heart attacks may be an ...

Jennifer Johnson called 911 early one morning when her husband of 50 years, Steven Johnson, was struggling to get up.

Taylor Wimpey East Scotland has donated a public access defibrillator (PAD) to a local convenience store near its recently ...

After a virus attacked his heart, Keath Gerald couldn't walk across his college campus. He didn't think he'd live to age 25. But 10 years after receiving a heart and liver transplant, Gerald finished ...