Heart Failure

WASHINGTON - Former Vice President Dick Cheney has been released from a suburban Washington hospital following surgery last month to install a pump that helps his failing heart work.

WASHINGTON - Former Vice President Dick Cheney disclosed Wednesday that he has undergone surgery to install a small pump to help his heart work, as the 69-year-old enters a new phase of what he called "increasing congestive heart failure." "The operation went very well and I am now recuperating," a still-hospitalized Cheney said in a statement.

ORLANDO, Fla. - Doctors say that a new type of heart pump greatly improves survival of people with severe heart failure.