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 ...

When your watch battery dies, you slip in a fresh one and continue with your day. When your implantable defibrillator battery gives out, you have to go under the knife. The surgery creates risks of ...

Her defibrillator battery was due for replacement. She also had a terminal illness. Lung cancer or the risk of a cardiac arrest? How does a doctor develop the skills to make such a decision? The ...

A type of implantable defibrillator — a device similar to a pacemaker — has developed a battery-shorting problem that can cause it to fail unexpectedly, the manufacturer said yesterday. About 87,000 ...

Two deaths have been linked to heart defibrillators made by St Jude Medical with batteries that failed. Now, the device maker as well as the US Food and Drugs Administration have issued warnings about ...

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.

A defibrillator company is reporting problems with a warning light that indicates when the battery in the product is low, Health Canada said Thursday. Defibtech has sent notices to customers to warn ...

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 ...