Now, researchers at the University of Chicago are making advances in pacemaker technology, developing a prototype that operates without a battery and addresses other limitations associated with ...

Surgeons use small prongs to push it into place in the heart. What’s more, the pacemaker monitors the heartbeat and activates only when it needs to. Dr. John Hummel explains: “If it stops for ...

In May, surgeons implanted a leadless mini-pacemaker in Brubaker's heart as part of a clinical trial. "The device is so small we're able to implant via the femoral vein in the leg, into the right ...

provides clinicians with the most advanced pacemaker technology available, including the revolutionary AF Suppression™ algorithm, the first and only U.S. commercially approved algorithm designed ...

The breakthrough involves fitting patients with a pacemaker or mini- defibrillator which is ... one of the most important advances in pacemaker technology within the past five years.

The ruling could mean that data from medical devices is more widely used in court cases An Ohio judge has ruled that data from a pacemaker ... this slippery slope as technology advances?" ...

As pacemaker technology becomes more complex and sophisticated, new systems present new challenges and more complex modes of failure. The risk of lead failure probably is higher than the risk of ...