A second safety warning from Guidant Corp., one of the nation’s largest medical device manufacturers, urged doctors to stop using five defibrillator models because they could malfunction and may have ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A malfunction in some of the Guidant Corp. defibrillators recalled last month could cause serious injury or death, the government said Friday in classifying 20,000 of the devices as ...

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The U.S. Department of Justice charged Guidant Corp. on Thursday with concealing critical information from federal regulators on "catastrophic" failures in several models of its heart defibrillators.

The North American subsidiary of Amsterdam-based Royal Philips reached an agreement on a consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice, representing the Food and Drug Administration, the company ...

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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Shares of Guidant Corp. plunged Friday after the medical-device maker disclosed four new cases of component failure in its implantable cardiac defibrillators, the second such ...

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Medtronic Inc. said late Thursday that it is voluntarily advising physicians about a potential battery shorting mechanism that may occur in a subset of implantable ...

The world's largest medical device company has acknowledged that many of its implanted cardiac defibrillators use an unencrypted wireless protocol that could allow an attacker to change the settings ...

As many as 750,000 heart devices made by Medtronic PLC contain a serious cybersecurity vulnerability that could let an attacker with sophisticated insider knowledge harm a patient by altering ...

All iPhone 12 models should be kept at a safe distance from individuals with pacemakers or defibrillators, according to a new warning issued to Apple customers in a support document on the company's ...