BUCKEYE, Ariz. — A Valley woman beat incredible odds, surviving a massive heart attack thanks to a revolutionary new piece of technology; a tiny heart pump. It was March 25 when Deanna Morehead, 61, ...

New concepts in device therapy for advanced heart failure presented in early reports ...

Physicians at Emory University Hospital performed the first-ever surgical implantation in the United States of a brand-new type of heart pump designed to help save patients with heart failure, using a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It doesn't look like much, but Katrina Penney says she wouldn't be here today without a very small heart pump. Penney went into ...

Buckeye woman Deanna Morehead survived a massive heart attack thanks to doctors at Abrazo West Campus who used the world's smallest heart pump to save her life. Morehead is now in recovery, working on ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A huge advancement in treating heart disease with a tiny device is now available in the valley. It's the world's smallest heart pump and it's saving the lives of patients who ...

Impella devices have been the subjects of a series of Abiomed letters and FDA early alerts and recall notices. In January, Abiomed sent an urgent medical device correction about a malfunction risk ...

A new high-tech help for young heart patients has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Doctors say this will allow them to save more lives, an important milestone as we kick off ...

Despite making up half of the 64 million people living with heart failure, patients with this common form have no access to heart pump treatments and are left with only medication or palliative care.

Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology are developing technology that will be able to determine the lifespan of a heart valve with more precision. “It’s almost like a check engine light on ...

In 1985 a new form of carbon known as buckminsterfullerene, or simply C60, was discovered at Rice University by the late Richard Smalley. He later went on to discover new ways to synthesize carbon ...

The heart is the body's hardest-working muscle. Whether you're awake or asleep, or exercising or resting, your heart is always at work. It pumps blood through arteries to deliver oxygen to organs and ...