If you have a heart-zapping defibrillator implanted in your chest but now are dying of something else, when do you have it turned off? Carol Filak had heard about painful, repeated shocks that people sometimes experience from those implants in their final days. So when her father ...

Medical device maker Boston Scientific said Monday it is suspending sales of its heart-shocking defibrillator implants after failing to alert regulators to changes in manufacturing of the best-selling devices. The company said it uncovered two production changes that were not cleared with the Food and Drug Administration. Medical device makers are required to alert regulators to significant changes in life-sustaining ...

NEW LIPITOR DATA: In some heart patients, the highest dose of Lipitor cut risk of heart attack and other complications by a third, compared to the lowest dose. PATIENT POPULATION: Patients in this new data analysis had heart disease, kidney disease and were either obese or had ...

A reanalysis of research data found a high dose of popular cholesterol pill Lipitor lowers risk of heart attack and stroke in some patients with both heart disease and kidney disease, the drug's maker said Monday. Pfizer Inc. said the new analysis, which it funded ...