Defibrillators and pacemakers help the heart maintain a regular rhythm. Defibrillators deliver a shock if the heart goes into arrhythmia. Pacemakers use electrical impulses to keep the heart from ...

A vest containing a defibrillator may be an option for some heart patients who can't use an implantable defibrillator -- the device that can shock the heart back to a proper rhythm if needed. That's ...

Jon LaPook, M.D. is the award-winning chief medical correspondent for CBS News. Since joining CBS News in 2006, LaPook has delivered more than 1,200 reports on a wide variety of breaking news and ...

About 100,000 Americans per year are told they need a sophisticated electronic device implanted in their chest. The device, an implanted cardioverter defibrillator (ICD), delivers a shock when it ...

Little Horkesley in Essex has installed its first public access defibrillator.

We've seen flying drones designed to deliver food and even beer on command, but a new autonomous aircraft from a non-profit organization in Germany could provide medical equipment to remote areas in ...

Defibrillators are used when a person is in cardiac arrest to restore a normal heartbeat, but would you know what to do if an alarming incident occurs? According to the British Heart Foundation, there ...

A man who climbed Mount Everest to install a defibrillator there says the device wound up saving a woman’s life just three weeks afterward. David Sullivan, 62, made the journey to the Himalayas to ...