TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - A second Topeka hospital now has a procedure aimed at preventing stroke in people who have been diagnosed with AFib. The University of Kansas Health System St. Francis Campus ...

Baptist Heart & Vascular Institute cardiologists, advanced practice providers and BHVI leadership recently gathered to celebrate the performance of its 1,000th Watchman procedure. The procedure is a ...

On Friday, Christus Heart Hospital celebrated their 1,000 Watchman procedure, which is used to treat atrial fibrillation, with cake. Christus Louis and Peaches Owen Heart Hospital staff gathered to ...

The Cottage Heart & Vascular Center’s structural heart team at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital (SBCH) recently performed their 1,000th WATCHMAN device procedure, a minimally invasive solution for ...

TEXARKANA, Texas (KSLA) - CHRISTUS St. Michael Health System is implementing a new heart procedure. Electrophysiologist Dr. Kevin Hayes says the Watchman procedure involves placing a permanent implant ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) – Today we are highlighting a life-saving milestone that has been reached at Corewell Health. Corewell Health physicians recently completed the one thousandth WATCHMAN ...

Medicare covers the Watchman procedure for eligible beneficiaries with nonvalvular AFib. To qualify for Medicare coverage, people must meet specific criteria, including having nonvalvular AFib, being ...

When David Reed was first diagnosed with atrial fibrillation (AFib), the treatment felt more unsettling than the disease. The most common form of heart arrhythmia, AFib prompts the heart’s upper ...

For many families, justice for Civil Rights-era racial violence came not from police—but decades later, through one Louisiana journalist’s search for truth. The man accused of shooting another man and ...