Long Island Jewish Medical Center has performed what it says is the world’s first implantation of a leadless left ventricular pacemaker in an adult congenital heart patient. According to Northwell ...

The Aveir VR Mini ventricular leadless pacemaker [Image courtesy of Abbott]Abbott (NYSE: ABT) announced today that the FDA ...

The newly approved device is 14% shorter than the previous version and gives clinicians more options when making implant ...

A battery-free pacemaker can harvest energy from each heartbeat, potentially allowing future devices to work far longer ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. close up of finger balancing a grain of rice next to tiny pacemaker for size comparison Roughly one percent of infants are born ...

Pacemakers are medical devices implanted in the body to regulate heart rhythms. They're composed of electronic circuits with batteries and leads anchored to the heart muscle to stimulate it. However, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you have a heart rhythm disorder, you may have considered getting a pacemaker -- but you're wary of having a small electronic ...

Scientists have designed a temporary, battery-free pacemaker that can be broken down by the patient’s body when its work is done, the latest advance in the emerging field of bioelectronics. In a paper ...

A new, temporary pacemaker is smaller than a grain of rice. John A. Rogers / Northwestern University Researchers have developed the smallest temporary pacemaker ever created. It’s littler than a grain ...