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  • Melton off work after medical check-up 19 Nov 2008 14:31 GMT
    ... nothing to be worried about. The mayor routinely visits the doctor since his recent heart surgery. He had a chest defibrillator implanted in January after a fainting spell at the Hinds County Courthouse. ...

  • Residents go to bat for Hudson police in reaccreditation try 19 Nov 2008 14:31 GMT
    ... died (behind the wheel) of an hereditary heart problem," Trudel recalled for a three-member panel ... thank God they did, because they had defibrillators, and I was dead. I was blue. ...

  • Macon City Councilman Jones improves after collapsing 19 Nov 2008 13:53 GMT
    ... of Central Georgia, a day after his heart and breathing stopped during a council committee ... closer look at its need for automated defibrillators. While conducting chest compressions on Jones, Riggins ...

  • St Jude Medical wins Japanese approval for Victory pacemakers 19 Nov 2008 12:28 GMT
    ... Victory pacemakers are designed to promote more natural heart function, allowing the patient's own heart rhythm to prevail when possible by reducing the ...

  • Council OKs law for heart devices 19 Nov 2008 10:55 GMT
    ... help someone in distress by deploying a defibrillator. However, that law is due to end ... an advocate for the San Diego Project Heart Beat, an organization Madaffer helped found. Project ...

  • Medtronic's Currency Conundrum 19 Nov 2008 10:27 GMT
    ... is the leading seller of implantable cardioverter defibrillators, small battery-powered devices that are implanted into ... battery-powered devices that are implanted into the heart to correct atypical rhythms, reported 13.0% growth ... translation. Medtronic's cardiac rhythm unit, which makes pacemakers and defibrillators, grew 9.1%, to $1.2 billion, ...

  • Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, Cardiac Pioneer, Dies at 90 19 Nov 2008 07:17 GMT
    ... Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, who performed the first human in the ... was 90. The cause was complications of heart failure, said Jean Kantrowitz, his wife of ... 1980s. He also invented an early implantable pacemaker, designed with General Electric in 1962, and ...

  • Heart Institute tests treatment 19 Nov 2008 06:28 GMT
    ... its own. The institute is enrolling congestive heart-failure patients in the trial. Doctors will biopsy ... and the individual must have a defibrillating pacemaker, which serves as a backup if the ... second studies, we didn’t have to put (defibrillators) in, but the FDA is making this ...

  • Councilman improves after collapsing 19 Nov 2008 06:20 GMT
    ... of Central Georgia, a day after his heart and breathing stopped during a council committee ... closer look at its need for automated defibrillators. While conducting chest compressions on Jones, Riggins ...

  • S.D. law requires new large buildings to have defibrillators 19 Nov 2008 04:14 GMT
    ... and theaters, will be required to have heart-starting medical devices on site under a law ... requirements. The devices, known as automated external defibrillators, are common in public buildings and are ...

  • Medtronic hit with subpoena, weak 2Q 19 Nov 2008 03:54 GMT
    ... late October, as the company lost market share in key product areas including implantable defibrillators and heart stents. Medtronic also experienced production problems that put the brakes on the otherwise hot ...

  • 'I'm still standing' - Gilly McLea's story 19 Nov 2008 02:05 GMT
    ... Gilly McLea, who lost her husband Paul when she was ... was 35, pictured in Belfast. Photograph: Arthur Allison/Pacemaker I MET Paul when I was 17. ... poem says it all: "I carry your heart - I carry it in my heart." ...

  • Doing what mom says, '911 hero' in Richfield saves her life 19 Nov 2008 02:04 GMT
    ... O ver and over, Lisa Kleven talked with her son about ... cartoons. Kleven, now 43, had had a heart attack. Last week, Dale's actions following his ... of heart trouble and she had a pacemaker implanted. She's proud of her son, calling ...

  • Medtronic's 2nd-quarter profit falls on legal charges and weaker foreign currency 19 Nov 2008 00:50 GMT
    ... in part due to lower-than-expected sales of pacemakers, spinal implants and other devices. Company shares ... on a boost in sales of implantable defibrillators. The devices send electrical shocks to regulate heart rhythms. But analysts focused on lower-than-expected pacemaker ...

  • Man saved by firefighters, defibrillator 19 Nov 2008 00:15 GMT
    ... medical office when he suffered a sudden heart problem last Friday was very lucky in ... took over, and using an automated external defibrillator, shocked the victim's heart "and got a ...


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