Connie Bowling, a 75-year-old deaf patient from Forsyth County, received a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) in March ...

In the United States, obesity is estimated to cause between 280,000 and 374,000 deaths each year and more than $170 billion ...

In fact, one of the UAHT goals for the future is to include LVAD education in advanced cardiac life support or basic life support courses, just as automatic external defibrillator device education ...

After six days in the hospital, Punturi was sent home with medicine, but on Sept. 8 as he was watching the Steelers beat the ...

India plans to develop cost-effective left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) to aid end-stage heart failure patients while ...

Revolutionary balloon and stent procedure reduces recovery time from weeks to days, transforming treatment for patients with mechanical heart pumps.

Abbott has launched a “first-of-its-kind” trial to identify advanced heart failure patients who could potentially benefit ...

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - ECU Health’s Ventricular Assist Device (VAD) program has officially served the Eastern Carolina community for seven years. “I never thought I’d probably hit seven ...

The agreement will allow Cadrenal to utilize Abbott’s network of trial sites and investigators that are familiar with LVAD devices and that patient population, which we believe may expedite ...

Thanks to an organ donor, James Boyd of Newberry has a second chance at life. That’s also thanks to Sheila, his wife of over ...

True ventricular assist devices (VADs) qualify for long-term application and allow patients full mobilization. These features are important in patients awaiting heart transplantation as well as in ...