CARBONDALE — A device just a few millimeters wide is extending lives for cardiac patients undergoing complex procedures and treatments. Described as the world’s smallest heart pump, cardiologists at ...

A clinical study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital in Sweden shows that the hunger hormone ghrelin can increase the heart’s pump capacity in patients with ...

With a four-year, $3.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, a team from Pen State College of Medicine will develop a small, durable ventricular assist device (VAD) designed ...

Gisel Tafolla is enjoying the happy times of raising her baby daughter, just three months after surviving a harrowing medical emergency. The 26-year-old Delhi mother gives credit to the lifesaving ...

According to The Cornell Chronicle, federal funding for a pediatric heart pump being developed at Cornell University has been restored after a seven-month pause, though the disruption is expected to ...

A new type of surgically implanted pump that can support a child's failing heart has passed the first stage of human testing in a recent trial. A small, implantable cardiac pump that could help ...

A small, implantable cardiac pump that could help children await heart transplants at home, not in the hospital, has performed well in the first stage of human testing. The pump, a new type of ...

Abiomed has received FDA approval for a new model of its minimally invasive cardiac pump targeting the right side of the heart, allowing for a new approach the company says will make it easier for ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Datascope/Getinge announced a recall of its intra-aortic balloon pumps due to risk for blood entering the pump ...

CLICHY, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CorWave, a French company that develops and manufactures innovative cardiac assist devices, held the grand opening of its new facility on the banks of the Seine in ...

Gisel Tafolla at her home in Delhi, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024. In July, Gisel had postpartum cardiomyopathy, experienced cardiogenic shock and a small heart pump was needed to save her life. Andy Alfaro ...