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ATHOL, Idaho — With the end in sight for his goal of raising $3,000 to buy defibrillators for the Timberlake Fire Department, David Davis is creating an organization to further that cause for other ...

A group of civic leaders are rolling out what they call "The St. Paul Defibrillator" — a plan they say is meant to jolt the city's core back to life. Since 1989, jeweler Paul Hartquist has come to ...

Emergency response agencies are using drones to transport automated external defibrillators during active 911 emergencies. (HealthDay News) — Can a high-tech drone be the difference between life and ...

Andrew’s Assist, a Huntley-based nonprofit honoring the life of 22-year-old Andrew Fulcer, is donating an automated external defibrillator to The Depot in downtown East Dundee. Andrew Fulcer died of ...

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (KEYT) - February is American Heart Month. French Hospital in SLO County is launching a new program to distribute Automated External Defibrillators, or AED’s. They’ll be given ...

Sherry Adams, state health officer for North Dakota, speaks Feb. 11, 2026, during an event celebrating the lives saved thanks to a grant that provided portable defibrillators to state and local law ...

Department of Health and Human Services officials gathered Wednesday, Feb. 11, in Bismarck to celebrate the success of a grant program that purchased 1,700 automated external defibrillators, often ...

CHELMSFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ZOLL®, an Asahi Kasei company that manufactures medical devices and related software solutions, announced today that Zenix®, the company’s most clinically advanced ...

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.

AtaCor Medical Inc. announced that it’s collaborating with healthcare giant Abbott Laboratories to develop a next-generation defibrillator system for abnormal heart rhythms. The collaboration provides ...

Abbott is teaming up with AtaCor Medical to develop a next-generation implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) designed to treat dangerous cardiac arrhythmias without routing wires through the ...