Researchers build a battery-free pacemaker powered by the patient's own heartbeat, potentially lasting a lifetime without ...

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 ...

Betty Bennett is not a homebody. The Homer resident says she enjoys the outdoors and visiting a senior center to do activities and go on daytrips. An avid gardener, Bennett also likes to plant flowers ...

Technology is always evolving, and so are the pacemakers available to patients at McLaren Greater Lansing. Some patients with slow heart rates can now opt for a state-of-the-art wireless pill-size ...

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

Pacemakers and defibrillators are devices that help manage heart rhythm problems, but they work differently. A pacemaker ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence received a heart pacemaker device during routine surgery on Wednesday and is expected to fully recover, his spokesman said on Thursday.

A heartbeat-powered pacemaker from UW–Madison harvests cardiac motion to charge an experimental leadless implant.

Millions of Americans spend weeks recovering from heart surgery and other operations to repair brain and bone injuries every year. As special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from Chicago, ...