INDIANAPOLIS -- The maker of an internal heart defibrillator is acknowledging it waited three years before telling some 24,000 patients and their doctors about an electrical problem that caused a ...

Each year, tens of thousands of Americans have defibrillators implanted in their chests to regulate heart rhythm. Earlier this year, the death of a 21-year-old from a malfunctioning device focused new ...

For most implants and other high-risk devices brought to market, manufacturers do nothing more than file some paperwork and ...

An inmate executed by Tennessee without deactivating his implanted defibrillator said he was hurting badly shortly after the lethal injection began, according to several witnesses. Black died at 10:43 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Tennessee executed an inmate Tuesday without deactivating his implanted defibrillator, despite uncertainty about whether the device would shock his heart when the lethal chemicals ...

May 23 -- Imagine living with a device, day in and day out, that could mean the difference between life and death. The implantable defibrillator is exactly that for the cardiac patients who wear it.

Tennessee plans to execute Byron Black on Tuesday for the 1988 murders of a woman and her two young daughters, despite concerns from his attorneys that a device implanted to restore his heartbeat ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Update (1 p.m. EDT): Tennessee carried out Byron Black's death sentence on Tuesday morning, executing the man convicted of murdering his girlfriend and her two daughters in 1988.