Photo: The Accent RF pacemaker made by St. Jude Medical is designed to enhance patient safety, improve clinic efficiencies and deliver tailored therapy. (Courtesy St. Jude Medical) Doctors at Wake ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) – Each year, 200,000 people will undergo a surgery to have a pacemaker implanted. Most pacemakers last six to 10 years. The biggest problem with traditional ...

NEW ORLEANS – The world’s smallest pacemaker, which is about the same size of a pill, is now an option for patients with heart problems in New Orleans. The Micra Transcatheter Pacing System, or Micra ...

A recent study found that wireless pacemakers could be an effective and safe short-term treatment for children with slow heartbeats, U.S. News & World Report reported April 11. The study, published in ...

Doctors and patients alike can heart-ly believe that researchers developed a wireless pacemaker that can dissolve in the body. The pacemaker is for patients who need temporary assistance to regulate ...

Surgeons at Cone Health implanted a wireless, removable pacemaker into two patients on Feb. 11, becoming the first hospital in North Carolina to perform the procedure. Cone and Duke University ...

Mechanical and electrical energy are linked and can be exchanged back and forth. Just like ultrasound converts electrical voltage into pressure or sound, we can engineer similar materials onto ...

This week Cambridge Consultants unveiled a semi-leadless pacemaker it designed for start-up EBR Systems. The device, called Wireless Cardiac Stimulation system (WiCS), includes a leadless electrode ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Researchers are reporting encouraging results for a new generation of pacemakers — miniature, wireless ones that can be implanted through a leg vein without surgery. In a study of 725 ...

Pacemakers, relied upon by many patients with irregular heart rhythms, are not built for children. Scrambling up trees, hanging from monkey bars, and even the simple act of growing make the device ...

Scientists at the University of Chicago have developed a new pacemaker that’s thinner than a human hair, wireless and operated entirely by light from an optic fiber. The non-invasive device could help ...

A team of researchers in Texas has redesigned the pacemaker, developing a new prototype that is wireless, battery-free and can be implanted directly into a patient's heart. Wirelessly powered by a ...