BEAR, Delaware (WPVI) -- When medication stops helping with heart failure, a ventricular assist device might be the next option. VAD implants have doubled in the past decade, but are still underused.

Two years ago, on a family skiing trip to Colorado, Toby Wise was struggling to keep up. Wise, 45, had always been in good health, played football in high school and played in a softball league and a ...

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- Several dozen people gathered at Clovis Community Medical Center on Friday to celebrate patients living with a Left Ventricular Assist Device, also known, as LVAD for the last ...

Over those two years of check-ups and ultrasounds, doctors found that his heart was actually recovering and getting stronger due to the LVAD.

NEW YORK -- Harold E. Doley, Jr. had just weeks to live by the time he decided to get a life-saving procedure at NewYork- Presbyterian. He is fifty-year member of the New York Stock Exchange who ...

Heart disease can leave a patient tied to a bed or a hospital room waiting on life, instead of living it. However, medical advances are giving people with heart disease a chance to live more freely - ...

Nearly 14,000 heart pumps tied to hundreds of injuries and more than a dozen deaths are being recalled, according to federal health officials. The HeartMate II and HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Assist ...

Ventricular assist devices are mechanical pumps that take over the function of the damaged ventricle in order to re-establish normal hemodynamics and end-organ blood flow. In addition, VADs unload the ...

Atlanta - James Craft said he was visiting his daughter Jasmine and granddaughter Aleina in Atlanta when he started feeling run down in 2019. He blamed it on the long hours he spends on his feet at ...

When heart muscle gets damaged, the result is often permanent. Unlike other muscles in the body, the heart has long been believed to lack the ability to heal itself. But recent research suggests that ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Atrium Health cardiac care experts worked tirelessly to ...

How an artificial heart pump saved the life of a longtime singer. How an artificial heart pump saved the life of a longtime singer and enabled him to maintain his quality of life. Grover Silcox ...