Medical device maker Zoll Medical Corporation has received FDA premarket approval for a wearable external defibrillator for use in the hospital. Zoll got approval last year for its LifeVest, a similar ...

Here's more support to show that when a bystander uses a portable defibrillator on someone suffering cardiac arrest in a public place, chances of survival increase markedly. Another big plus: the ...

A match official whose life was saved with a defibrillator after collapsing twice during a game is continuing to receive treatment in hospital.

A Long Island hospital is the first in the nation to implant a novel defibrillator outside a patient’s heart and veins. Cardiologists at the Sandra Atlas Bass Heart Hospital at North Shore University ...