Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Roughly one percent of infants are born with heart defects every year. The majority of these cases only require a temporary ...

Researchers at Northwestern University just found a way to make a temporary pacemaker that’s controlled by light—and it’s smaller than a grain of rice. A study on the new device, published last week ...

The Food and Drug Administration has issued a Class I recall correction for certain Boston Scientific ACCOLADE pacemakers and cardiac resynchronization therapy pacemakers after identifying a software- ...

A pacemaker is a small, battery-powered device that controls the heartbeat. Our heartbeats are controlled by a highly efficient, biological electrical system that ensures our heart steadily pumps ...

Northwestern University engineers have developed a pacemaker so tiny that it can fit inside the tip of a syringe—and be noninvasively injected into the body. Although it can work with hearts of all ...

A novel leadless pacemaker designed for left bundle branch area pacing conferred successful pacing parameters at 1 month, but ...

Smaller than a grain of rice, new pacemaker is particularly suited to the small, fragile hearts of newborn babies with congenital heart defects. Tiny pacemaker is paired with a small, soft, flexible ...

Boston Scientific recalls pacemakers due to battery issues causing safety mode activation linked to 4 deaths and 2,557 serious injuries, FDA reports.

Last week, Abbott began the commercial launch of its new leadless pacemaker, which it believes is a historic development in the world of cardiac rhythm devices. Aveir DR is a better option than ...

Medtronic has secured the FDA’s approval for the latest generation of its miniaturized, wireless pacemaker implants, the Micra AV2 and VR2. According to the company, the newest models can offer up to ...