Medtronic Issues Heart Device Warning
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Medical device maker Medtronic Inc.  said on Friday it has begun warning doctors about some faulty  batteries installed in a line of its implantable heart  defibrillators.
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Medtronic Inc. on Thursday recalled the software used to program some SynchroMed implantable pumps because it was susceptible to errors that have led to two deaths and seven serious injuries.
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People worried about sudden cardiac arrest no longer need a doctor's prescription to buy devices that jump-start the heart.     The Food and Drug Administration for the first time agreed Thursday to let consumers go online and purchase the $2,000 devices for home use...
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Abiomed Inc. on Thursday said the failure of the artificial heart implanted in a patient who died last month was caused by early wear-out of a bearing.
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Dr. Robert Jarvikâs newest heart device, the Jarvik 2000, holds the distinction of keeping a patient alive the longest. But it is facing competition.
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MONTREAL - A company in Quebec has invented a device to detect the earliest signs of a heart attack and send the information to medics before the patient realizes anything is wrong.
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Portable media players such as iPods  are unlikely to interfere with heart pacemakers, a U.S. Food  and Drug Administration researcher reported on Thursday.
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Drug-releasing stents used widely to keep clogged heart arteries open may increase the risk of potentially dangerous blood clots, but there is no conclusive evidence that the devices boost the likelihood of having a heart attack or dying if used as recommended, an expert panel said yesterday.
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In a tug of war over the skyrocketing costs of medical technology, the makers of implantable defibrillators are opposing a plan by Medicare to track the health outcomes of patients who get the devices.
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Researchers believe heart devices could prevent some unexpected epilepsy deaths. One man describes how he lost his daughter and grandson to epilepsy.
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NEW YORK  - New guidelines recommend precautionary measures when it comes to driving for people who have been given an implantable defibrillator, called an ICD.
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Calls made on cell phones do not affect hospital medical devices, U.S. researchers said on Friday, but store anti-theft alarms might make implanted heart devices misfire.
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Studies linking implantable RFID chips to cancer are bad news for the company.
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Mobiles can upset hospital equipment A new study published in Critical Care indicates that the signal generated by mobile phones can interfere with hospital equipment, even to the point of inhibiting its function, from a range of up to three meters.â¦
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Boston Scientific Corp. , the medical devices maker, received a warning letter from federal regulators about inadequate record keeping and reporting following the deaths of five patients in a clinical trial for an experimental device.
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A mesh &quot;sleeve&quot; surgically wrapped around the heart has shown promise for helping people with heart failure. Manufacturers of the new device, the Acorn CorCap Cardiac Support
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NEW YORK  - By delivering a small shock that gets the heart beating regularly again, implantable cardioverter-defibrillator or ICDs can save the lives of patients with heart conditions.