Authorities are looking for a woman accused of taking a defibrillator that fell off a Beverly firetruck on March 30. According to fire officials, the defibrillator came free from a storage cabinet on ...

A woman in McKinney is lucky to be alive after suffering a cardiac arrest last week. Doctors say it would have killed her if she hadn't been fitted with a wearable defibrillator days earlier. Sheryl ...

Bystanders used an automated external defibrillator and CPR to revive a woman who collapsed at Duluth International Airport on Sunday afternoon. The woman was waiting to go through security when she ...

Sept. 15 -- MONDAY, Sept. 14 (HealthDay News) -- Widely used implantable cardioverter-defibrillators may not actually help women with advanced heart failure. A new analysis turns up no evidence that ...

A report from the Resuscitation Council UK found one-in-four people survived a cardiac arrest in hospital, while the British ...

Surgeons commonly put a defibrillator in the chests of women who have advanced heart failure. But a new study suggests that the devices do little to prevent the women from dying, though they seem to ...

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Washington police used CPR and a defibrillator twice to revive a township woman who had stopped breathing early Tuesday morning at a private residence. Sgt. Brian Bingham and patrol officers Michael ...

(Corrects to show author quoted was Christian Machado and not Hamid Ghanbari) * Implantable devices may not reduce deaths in women * Women underrepresented in defibrillator studies * Future studies ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who are hospitalized for heart failure are less likely than their male counterparts to receive an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD), a devise that monitors ...

Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators do not appear to be associated with a reduced risk of death in women with advanced heart failure, according to a meta-analysis of previously published research.