CHICAGO (Reuters) - Medtronic Inc said on Tuesday a study of device therapy in patients with mild heart failure missed its primary goal on a measure of disease progression, but some patients saw their ...

Dozens of patients were put at risk after two of the UK's leading transplant centres continued fitting a heart device - despite knowing of concerns it had a higher mortality rate than its rival ...

Though the Medtronic OmniaSecure is the world's smallest defibrillation lead, the product development story isn't one of ...

(Reuters) -Medical device maker Medtronic topped Wall Street estimates for second-quarter profit and revenue on Tuesday, driven by strong demand for its heart disease and diabetes devices. Investor ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Patient injury reports for the tiny wires used with Medtronic's implantable heart devices jumped dramatically in the past year, a consumer group said on Tuesday, a day after the ...

Medtronic is cautioning physicians to be careful when using a popular new heart valve after 19 patients died from severe blood vessel trauma caused by the device, reports the Star Tribune. Minneapolis ...

The Food and Drug Administration has issued a Class I recall of about 15,000 guidewires on various Medtronic heart devices, saying the defective coating on the wires could cause serious injury or ...

For a person with a pacemaker or implantable defibrillator, a weekend or evening trip to the emergency room or urgent care can become an hours-long slog of waiting for the "expert" to show up.

MINNEAPOLIS — The pink, white and red blob of tissue quivers in a vat of clear goop about the size of a kitchen sink. Graduate students whiz around this slimy beating heart and crawl under the tubes ...