There are new and revised warnings about the instructions for use of a certain type of heart pump that could lead to a risk of heart perforation, according to an alert issued by the pump's ...

Abiomed updated warnings on more than 60,000 Impella Left Sided Heart Pumps because the device might cut the wall of the heart’s left ventricle, the FDA said March 21. After 129 serious injuries, ...

Physicians at Emory University Hospital performed the first-ever surgical implantation in the United States of a brand-new type of heart pump designed to help save patients with heart failure, using a ...

A marathon pushes the human body close to its limits. Legs tire, lungs burn and the heart works hard for hours on end. For ...

Heart disease can leave a patient tied to a bed or a hospital room waiting on life, instead of living it. However, medical advances are giving people with heart disease a chance to live more freely - ...

The Berlin heart, made especially for kids, is awaiting FDA approval. Feb. 21, 2008 — -- Children facing heart failure are often given little chance of survival, because there are so few ...

It was hard for Layman Roseby to say goodbye to the people who gave him a second chance at life. Roseby, 52, said he was feeling "wonderful" Friday as he was about to be released from the University ...

Dublin, Nov. 28, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "North America Heart Pump Device Market Report by Product, Type, End Use, Countries and Company Analysis, 2025-2033" report has been added to ...

Studies have shown that heart failure—which affects about 6.2 million adults in the U.S. alone—may shorten life expectancy by an average of 10 years and that only about half of those with the ...