A grieving mum is fighting for answers after her Freeman Hospital patient son died after being fitted with a faulty heart pump. Greg Marshall, 26 died in September 2023. From West Yorkshire, he had ...

Three patients "potentially died" due to failures with a "pump" implanted in their hearts. Leading medics at the Freeman Hospital felt warnings about the pump in question "lacked scientific value".

Dozens of patients were put at risk after two of the UK's leading transplant centres continued fitting a heart device - despite knowing of concerns it had a higher mortality rate than its rival ...

Abbott has issued a recall for select HeartMate mobile power units used with its HeartMate3 and HeartMate III left-ventricular assist systems due to risk of sudden power loss that could lead to ...

LOS ANGELES -- Clinicians working in advanced heart failure vented their frustrations about the shrinking number of device therapies left from round after round of FDA recalls. Could a changed ...

Introduction: Heart transplantation is the recommended treatment method for patients with advanced heart failure that is refractory to clinical treatment. Due to the progressive severity of these ...

The long-term use of ventricular assist devices is becoming a problem for at least some of these devices, as demonstrated by the recall of the Heartmate II and Heartmate 3 devices by Abbott ...

The FDA said Abbott (NYSE:ABT) has issued a corrective recall for its HeartMate Touch Communication System for use with its HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Assist Device and HeartMate System Controller.

Within the prior 24 months, I have had a financial relationship with a company producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients: Receive the the ...

Upbeat phase III findings outweighed less encouraging late-stage trial news, as big pharma provided a mixed bag of cancer findings – with one data batch to form... By creating a new mouse model of ...