Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Electrocardiograms, or ECGs, record the electrical activity of your heart. Randy Faris/The Image Bank via Getty Images Your ...

This week Cambridge Consultants unveiled a semi-leadless pacemaker it designed for start-up EBR Systems. The device, called Wireless Cardiac Stimulation system (WiCS), includes a leadless electrode ...

Medtronic has secured a new approval from the FDA that expands the flexibility of its pacemaker hardware, allowing it to tap into the heart’s natural electrical signals. Known as conduction system ...

Currently under review at the FDA, Abbott’s miniaturized, leadless pacemaker has aced a clinical study by showing it could speed up the beat of a patient’s heart once its rhythm falls out of sync. The ...

LONDON, England—New research has identified several high-risk variables associated with the need for a new permanent pacemaker after TAVI for aortic stenosis. None on the list are among the more ...

Your heart runs on electricity! Discover how tiny sparks keep it beating — and how Buffalo inventor Wilson Greatbatch’s “happy accident” led to the pacemaker, a life-saving device that changed ...

In a proof-of-concept study that aims to address the unmet need for minimally invasive cardiac control and monitoring devices, researchers have developed a network of wireless devices, including a ...

The tiny pacemaker sits next to a single grain of rice on a fingertip. The device is so small that it can be non-invasively injected into the body via a syringe. Northwestern University engineers have ...