A 74-year-old woman in India, suffering from complications due to an infected pacemaker, has been successfully treated with a first-of-its-kind leadless pacemaker. This minimally invasive procedure, ...

For the past 50 years, pacemakers have hardly changed, but a new device has the potential to change how pacemakers work. The device is the size of a large vitamin and is implanted via catheter rather ...

Medical staff at Asan Medical Center, Seoul, are implanting the pacemaker 'Micra' into the right ventricle of an arrhythmia patient's heart through a leg vein. Photo courtesy of Asan Medical Center, ...

Patients are test driving a pacemaker outside the skin before deciding whether to have a permanent implant, reveals novel research. Patients are test driving a pacemaker outside the skin before ...

A Shenandoah resident recently participated in an innovative approach to pacemaker implantation — and it was performed without a single incision to the chest. On Sept. 2 at Memorial Hermann The ...

LONG BEACH, Calif., March 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The MemorialCare Heart & Vascular Institute at Long Beach Medical Center's electrophysiology team, led by Dr. Mark Lee, performed Long Beach Medical ...

A prototype for a miniature pacemaker, about the size of an almond, aims to make pacemaker procedures for infants less invasive, less painful, and more efficient, measured by shorter surgeries, faster ...

Nov. 9 (UPI) --A pacemaker protype the size of an almond designed to make procedures for infants less invasive, less painful and more efficient has been tested on pigs. Dr. Rohan Kumthekar, a ...

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece discusses the regeneration of the cardiovascular system. In 1999, I defined regenerative medicine as the ...

Back in November, we wrote about a tiny pacemaker made by Silicon Valley startup Nanostim. Whereas traditional pacemakers require chest surgery and a pocket to implant the device in—the Nanostim ...

You must have heard of pacemakers? They are required when the heart's natural system malfunctions, causing it to beat too slowly (bradycardia), irregularly, or even pause. All these can hinder ...