Emirates Airline has placed a further order for the Philips Automated External Defibrillator (AED) device, FR2 AED, for the new fleet of Emirates planes that have already been ordered from Boeing and ...

Varig Brazilian Airlines, the largest airline in Latin America, says it soon will begin equipping its planes with automatic defibrillators and a variety of emergency medical equipment, including ...

Patients with advanced cancer who also had cardiac defibrillators were more likely than those without these implants to receive aggressive end-of-life care, a team led by UT Southwestern Medical ...

Davina Tavener, an active, healthy 47-year-old mother of two died during a Ryanair flight to Lanzarote, Spain, and both medical professionals and her grieving family hope her death will encourage all ...

Implanted medical devices are becoming increasingly sophisticated, moving from simple pacemakers to computerized devices that can actively respond to changes in a patient's condition. Perhaps the most ...

Four new defibrillators have been installed along a busy A-road. The medical devices have been rolled out along the A417 in Gloucestershire. The equipment and training for local communities to learn ...

A team of researchers found several potentially “fatal” security flaws in 10 different medical implants. Researchers at the University of Birmingham in the U.K. and the University of Leuven in Belgium ...

The incident highlights a growing concern that the NHS is prone to cyber attacks - threatening patient safety ...

Every minute counts when someone's heart stops. In the U.S., more than 350,000 people suffer cardiac arrest each year, and fewer than 10% survive. Most of these emergencies happen at home, far from ...