A small group of older Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX) subcutaneous implantable cardioverter defibrillators have an increased risk of early battery depletion, the company said this month in an advisory letter to physicians. The Marlborough, Mass.-based company said the issue affects about 400 (0.7%) of its Emblem S-ICD and Emblem MRI S-ICD devices. Those devices have “an elevated […]

A problem with the batteries in certain pacemakers made by Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) led to at least one death and one injury, the FDA said today. The issue, which affects the Azure and Astra pacemakers and Percepta, Serena and Solara cardiac resynchronization therapy pacemakers, occurs when a ceramic capacitor cracks internally due to thermal-mechanical stress during […]