Vice President Dick Cheney on Saturday had minor surgery to receive a new battery for an implanted device that monitors his heart rhythms, his spokeswoman said. "The device was successfully replaced ...

About one in 25 patients who has surgery to replace the battery in an under-the-skin chest device that shocks the heart experiences a complication within 45 days, a new study suggests. The implantable ...

Every passenger that steps onto a commercial flight puts their life in the hands of the flight's crew and the airline. The crew is tasked with ensuring the plane reaches its destination safely, and ...

The rapid draining of the battery can happen in days, said St. Jude’s Carlson. Those devices should be replaced immediately, and St. Jude said it will provide a replacement device at no cost. The ...

Two deaths have been linked to St. Jude Medical heart defibrillators with batteries that failed. Now, the device maker has issued warnings about nearly 400,000 of the devices in use worldwide.

Medtronic has issued a warning about rapid unexpected battery depletion that may happen in seven kinds of implantable defibrillators, affecting nearly 340,000 implanted devices worldwide. The Food and ...

If the physician decides to replace an affected device based on a patient's circumstances, St. Jude Medical will provide a replacement device at no cost; the company's statement said that none of its ...

NATICK, Mass., May 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --New data from 100,438 patients with Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE:BSX) implantable cardiac defibrillators (ICDs) and cardiac resynchronization therapy ...