NATIONAL HARBOR, MD — Even Thoratec's HeartMate II left ventricular assist device (LVAD), which had been something of a hit with Dick Cheney and thousands of less famous patients with end-stage heart ...

Thoratec Corp. of Pleasanton warned consumers late Tuesday that four patients, including two who improperly used the company's popular heart pump device, had died. The users had experienced problems ...

People with left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) often underwent non-cardiac surgery -- and faced higher-than-average morbidity and mortality in doing so, a study showed. One in six Medicare ...

Heart failure is a major public health problem. For terminal heart failure the treatment of choice used to be heart transplantation during the last three decades. But this is changing, largely due to ...

In early September 2025, numerous social media posts online speculated about U.S. President Donald Trump's health, particularly after photographs claiming to show mysterious bumps under his suit ...