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Every year an estimated 1.5 million magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans are performed in Canada and the number is growing at a rate of about 10 per cent per year. At the same time, a soaring number ...

A more than a decade-long medical trial has opened the way for potentially life-saving treatment options for patients with ...

© IMAGO / ABACAPRESSFiorentina's Edoardo Bove underwent successful defibrillator surgery. Bove, who has been hospitalized since the incident, is expected to be ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) - A North Dakota woman is now the first in the state to receive a life-saving device for a rare heart condition commonly found in men. “I was just going about my day and suddenly ...

Waiting for a permanent implantable defibrillator can take months. That is why health professionals at Jackson Hospital are ...

Almost exactly a year after beginning a recall of some of its implantable defibrillator devices that were found to potentially emit electrical pulses below their programmed strength, Medtronic has ...

Standard training pathways in cardiac electrophysiology are being short-circuited for a "fast-track" approach to train nonelectrophysiologists (not necessarily cardiologists) to implant defibrillators ...

Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) are critical for preventing sudden cardiac death in high-risk patients, yet their therapeutic value is closely tied to device longevity. Battery ...