PHILADELPHIA -- Heart failure is a major, and costly, medical problem. The mean cost for one hospital stay is $15,000, and many patients are in the hospital again and again. But a tiny device is ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Heart failure is a major, and costly, medical problem. The mean cost for one hospital stay is $15,000 and many patients are in the hospital again and again. But a tiny device is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The reader aims to provide patients and clinicians with daily data to help detect and address the progression of heart failure.

As Abbott seeks an expanded indication for its CardioMEMS device for patients with heart failure, it’s also hoping to win over a national coverage decision from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ...

Last year during the holidays, R.G. Carver was using a string trimmer to knock down some weeds in his yard when he got into some cactus and got a few needles stuck in his leg. After a few days, his ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Food and Drug Administration review of CardioMEMS' device for treating heart failure found it has met its main safety and effectiveness goals, based on trial results. But the ...

Abbott ABT recently released favorable data from its GUIDE-HF clinical trial on its small implantable pulmonary pressure sensor, CardioMEMS HF System. This landmark clinical trial is a 1,000 patient ...

Atlanta, Georgia-based health device maker CardioMEMS received FDA clearance for its CardioMEMS HF System, which monitors pulmonary artery pressure, but for patients who have experienced New York ...

CardioMEMS ran into a regulatory roadblock last week, when an FDA advisory panel recommended that the agency not approve the company's Champion HF Monitoring System. The device is said to be the first ...

When Phyllis Brooks came to a local hospital due to shortness of breath, she was transferred to McLaren Greater Lansing Hospital, where further testing confirmed her diagnosis of a heart condition, ...