The world’s tiniest pacemaker - smaller than a grain of rice - could help save babies born with heart defects, say scientists. The miniature device can be inserted with a syringe and then dissolves ...

Your heart’s job is to keep your pulse steady to pump blood throughout your body. Sometimes your heart rate is slower when you’re relaxing, and sometimes it’s faster when you’re exercising or stressed ...

Innovative symbiotic transcatheter pacemaker harvests heart motion energy for lifelong pacing. Learn how this could transform ...

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 ...

A Bakersfield hospital Monday became the first in Kern County to successfully implant the AVEIR DR, the world's first dual-chamber leadless pacemaker system from Abbott that treats people with ...

Refurbished heart pacemakers have the potential to help people overseas who can't afford one An international trial that compared refurbished devices to new ones showed encouraging results Such ...