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 ...