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FDA heart pump recall after link to deaths and injuries
A pair of heart devices linked to hundreds of injuries and at least 14 deaths has received the FDA’s most serious recall, the agency announced...
Can you die of a broken heart?
Heartbreak – a common trope in fiction – is called takotsubo syndrome in the real world, but is relatively rare, accounting for only about...
FDA flags heart pump linked to 49 deaths
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued its highest-level alert about a heart pump that has been linked to 49 deaths and...
Donor liver protects heart transplant in US dual organ surgery
In a historic surgical procedure, an American patient received two donor organs, a liver and a heart, to prevent the extreme likelihood that her...
Next generation cardiac pump improves outcomes, cuts costs
In a presentation at the annual meeting of the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology, investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital...
Maddening cough had an unexpected cause
Despite seeing multiple doctors and underdoing various treatments over the course of a year, an American woman’s hacking, persistent cough was never correctly diagnosed...
Researchers uncover how paediatric MIS-C is linked to Covid
Scientists have finally unravelled one of the enduring mysteries of the pandemic – and what caused some children to develop a severe inflammatory syndrome...
Experts differ on when to declare a patient dead
Debate is simmering over the Uniform Determination of Death Act – a law adopted by most US states in the 1980s saying death can be...
Deaths and lawsuits expose flaws in FDA’s medical device oversight
A slew of lawsuits in the US – resulting from patients’ deaths – has highlighted the potential risks of various medical devices, most of...
US emergency departments are being overwhelmed but not by Covid
Even in parts of the United States where COVID-19 isn't overwhelming the health system, patients are showing up to Emergency Rooms (ER) sicker than...