Two surgeons at the University of Arizona Medical Center have performed the world’s first robotic implantation of a ventricular assist device. The Heartware Ventricular Assist Device is a small, ...

On July 29, a team from Emory’s Heart and Vascular Center completed its 500th continuous flow, durable left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation, further affirming Emory Healthcare’s status ...

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 ...

Surgeons at Virtua Health, a five-hospital system based in Camden, N.J., successfully performed its first left ventricular assist device implantation, the system announced July 1. The procedure is a ...

Large-bore devices and longer time on support each up the risk. A study author calls for awareness, not alarm.

"It may make sense to designate certain hospitals as 'centers of excellence,' where VAD procedures are routine and patients could benefits from their expertise." The study is the first to examine ...

In the latest step toward making left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) easier and more accessible, the FDA recently approved a less invasive surgical approach for use with Abbott Laboratories’ ...

Detailed price information for Becton Dickinson and Company (BDX-N) from The Globe and Mail including charting and trades.

PEORIA — More than a decade after suspending its heart-transplant program, OSF Saint Francis Medical Center is bringing it back. The Peoria hospital did heart transplants until 2006, then stopped the ...

PEORIA — After more than a decade, OSF Saint Francis Medical Center will again offer heart transplants to patients. The move, the hospital announced, will make St. Francis the only heart transplant ...

DURHAM, N.C. – Ventricular assist devices, or VADs – surgically-placed mechanical pumps that can support failing hearts or buy time to transplant – are associated with high hospital costs and high ...