Heart failure is a growing problem in the U.S. and in South Carolina but only a small percentage receive the appropriate ...

Dozens of patients were put at risk after two of the UK's leading transplant centres continued fitting a heart device - despite knowing of concerns it had a higher mortality rate than its rival ...

A pacemaker is a small, battery-powered device that controls the heartbeat. Our heartbeats are controlled by a highly efficient, biological electrical system that ensures our heart steadily pumps ...

Tulsa-based Oklahoma Heart Institute became the first facility in the U.S. to use the Supira percutaneous left ventricular assist device as part of the SUPPORT II research trial. The SUPPORT II trial ...

A wearable mini-pump device that allows heart-failure patients to receive medication at home rather than in hospital has been ...

Too old and too sick for a heart transplant, Arvid Herrman was given a choice: Have a mechanical pump implanted in his heart, potentially keeping him alive for several years, or do nothing and almost ...

A Tucson company founded by two local doctors and a biomedical engineer expects to significantly increase its production of temporary artificial hearts. SynCardia Systems, founded in 2001, has ...

Plaintiff Thelma Wood told The Star in March that the infection literally sucked the life out of her husband, Ron.

As Tucson toddler Tiana Lopez returned home last weekend after a spectacular recovery on an experimental heart device, the same device was pumping for another local baby with life-threatening heart ...