Although it can work with hearts of all sizes, the pacemaker is particularly well-suited to the tiny, fragile hearts of ...

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

Now, engineers at Northwestern University have developed what could have saved Armstrong’s life: the world’s smallest ...

A rice-sized, dissolvable pacemaker powered by light may revolutionize post-heart surgery care, especially for kids, while vanishing safely in the body.

Jerry Karzen has had many successes as both as tennis player and coach. Now he is getting the chance to extend those accomplishments with the assistance of a new generation of pacemaker.

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 ...

Clocks keep our routines consistent, the movement of time orderly, but our reliance on them causes us problems: when they go forward each spring, heart attacks spike by ... studies the minds of babies ...