An Ohio man has become one of the first in the world to be treated for congestive heart failure with a device that helps the organ's pumping action. The Ohio State University Medical Center announced ...

Menlo Park, Calif. – CardioKinetix Inc., a medical device company pioneering a catheter-based treatment for heart failure, announced the enrollment of the first patients in PARACHUTE IV, the ...

Both people on board a small airplane that crashed in Bellevue, Washington, on Tuesday were not injured after the plane made a relatively soft landing in a wooded area thanks to a parachute. Bellevue ...

MINNEAPOLIS - After suffering a heart attack, some patients are left with damage to the heart that can cause it to pump less efficiently. But now a new device, called the Parachute, being tested in a ...

CardioKinetix has developed a novel transcatheter implant called Parachute Ventricular Partitioning Device, which already received the CE mark and has now won approval for two additional sizes. The ...

Aaron Jargo will tell you that when his “fur children” are ready to go out for a walk or to the dog park, he is more than willing. Jargo remembers a time when that level of activity would leave him ...

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