Medtronic has issued a warning about rapid unexpected battery depletion that may happen in seven kinds of implantable defibrillators, affecting nearly 340,000 implanted devices worldwide. The Food and ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Medical device maker Medtronic is warning patients about a rare problem with its SynchroMed drug pumps that can cause them to lose battery power and fail. The company says it has ...

The first unexpected power failure in a Medtronic InSync III pacemaker didn't set off the alarm bells. But by the fourth time, doctors at the Minneapolis Heart Institute knew they had to act quickly.

Medtronic continues to have problems with its HeartWare Ventricular Assist Device (HVAD), which the company inherited through its $1.1 billion acquisition of HeartWare in 2016. The problem is a risk ...