The heart may be small, but its rhythm powers life. When something throws that rhythm off—especially after surgery—it can ...

Generally, pacemakers are put in because the heart is going too slowly for one of two reasons. The first is that the heart's natural pacemaker - an area known as the sinus node which generates the ...

Authorities in northern New Mexico have released body camera footage and other public records in the investigation into the ...

Temporary pacemaker can be injected, fits any size patient, including babies, and eliminates need to remove it.

A light-activated pacemaker dissolves in the body after use, offering safer, wireless heart care - especially for newborns ...

leading to a diagnosis of a complete heart block. Remarkably, she was treated by a former student, Dr. Haresh Mehta, who implanted a leadless pacemaker using a rare jugular vein route due to ...

Northwestern University engineers have developed the world’s smallest pacemaker, which is light-activated and can be injected non-invasively, offering a new potential treatment for newborns with ...

An international team of researchers has discovered a natural mechanism that protects the heart from heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), a serious condition in need of effective ...

This wearable monitors heart activity and uses light pulses to activate the pacemaker whenever an irregular heartbeat is detected. These light signals penetrate through skin, bone, and muscle to ...