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 ...

The rapid draining of the battery can happen in days, said St. Jude’s Carlson. Those devices should be replaced immediately, and St. Jude said it will provide a replacement device at no cost. The ...

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 ...

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.

MARLBOROUGH, Mass., Boston Scientific Corporation announces the launch and first U.S. implant of its line of Extended Longevity (EL) implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD), including DYNAGEN™ ...

If the physician decides to replace an affected device based on a patient's circumstances, St. Jude Medical will provide a replacement device at no cost; the company's statement said that none of its ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Metro officials are checking all 46 automated external defibrillators at stations after a device used on a man having a heart attack had an insufficient battery charge. Metro ...