People with implanted heart devices need closer follow-up care, an international panel of heart specialists recommended Wednesday in the first guidelines for monitoring this rapidly growing group of ...

A brand-new monitoring device for patients with heart failure may be able to detect signs of fluid overload, and could be used to monitor patients and help prevent hospital admissions, according to a ...

Two implanted heart devices used by patients in end-stage heart failure are now under a strict U.S. Food and Drug Administration recall, after being tied to 273 known injuries and 14 deaths, the ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dublin-based FIRE1 today announced that the first Irish patient has been successfully implanted with its FIRE1™ System for remote heart failure monitoring. The innovative ...

A team of researchers from the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) have unveiled their take on the digital stethoscope, which includes ECG and ...

Santa Cruz, California-based Murj, developer of a digital data collection platform for implantable cardiac devices, has officially emerged from stealth mode. Backed by $4.5 million in venture funding, ...

The Implantable Loop Recorders (ILR) market offers opportunities through enhanced long-term cardiac monitoring over traditional methods, global and regional trends analysis, regulatory insights, and ...

Accurately measuring electrical signals and calcium levels in the heart can lead to earlier treatment of potentially fatal conditions, such as heart attack or congestive heart failure. Calcium plays ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee officials ...

The vascular surgery team at UCSF Health recently became the first among University of California medical centers to implant a Barostim device to treat heart failure. The team implanted the device in ...