Congestive heart failure. Hypertension. Peripheral neuropathy. Sciatica. You name the disorder, and Norman Marigney of Santa Rosa may have it. In fact, he’s been hospitalized four times in the past ...

December 6, 2011 (Washington, DC)— The FDA seems to have doubts about the clinical trial that will be the basis for Thursday's advisory-panel consideration of the Champion pulmonary-artery pressure ...

LIMA — John Reeder has been hospitalized several times in recent years because of congestive heart failure. Since undergoing a new procedure at Lima Memorial Health System, the Lima resident said he ...

MARION — Congestive heart failure can be unpredictable and scary with little hope of living very long. One second you are on your feet and the next you’re in an ambulance on your way to the ER. But ...

Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Georgia Martin demonstrates how she uses her unique ...

GAITHERSBURG, MD (updated) — A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory committee narrowly voted in favor of a novel device that measures pulmonary-artery (PA) pressures in patients with heart ...

Congestive heart failure affects 5.7 million Americans and costs the system $30.5 billion including the cost of health care services, medications and in lost productivity due to missed days at work. A ...

No one doubts that St. Jude Medical CardioMEMS device is novel and path breaking in treating congestive heart failure. Here is a way by which accurate pressure readings of a heart failure patient's ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. health regulators on Monday said a CardioMEMs implant for treating heart failure met its main safety and effectiveness targets but warned of potential bias in the company's ...

A draft report from the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) analyzes CardioMEMS and finds that the device's price would impose "excessive cost burdens" on the health care system. Marie ...

A sensor implanted in one of the heart’s arteries has been proved to cut by half the number of emergency hospital admissions for people with heart failure. The tiny CardioMEMS monitor is able to ...