By harnessing light, my colleagues and I designed a wireless, ultrathin pacemaker that operates like a solar panel. This design not only eliminates the need for batteries but also minimizes ...

Spurred by advances in energy-harvesting materials, a new generation of advanced implantable biomedical devices is emerging ...

Wireless models of St Jude-branded pacemakers can now receive a firmware ... told the BBC there were a further 280,000 devices elsewhere. The flaws could theoretically be used to cause the devices ...

A 13-year-old girl, Chandni Gaud, receives a wireless pacemaker as a Diwali gift, sparing her from frequent hospital visits ...

wireless cardiac pacemaker “Aveir VR” at Bern University Hospital in Switzerland. Dr Magdi was specially invited to lead the ...

An example is an MRI machine (unless your pacemaker is safe for an MRI). You can use a cell phone and other wireless devices but keep them at least 6 inches away from your pacemaker. Many household ...

Sagi is leading a study using a new leadless, or wireless ... With the existing FDA-approved devices, when it fails or needs to be replaced, the pacemaker is usually left inside and another ...

MagSafe enables fast wireless charging ... with cardiac implantable electronic devices." Marie Moe, a computer security consultant for Mnemonic, who has a pacemaker herself and studies their ...

An optional, easy-to-use hand-held unit (SJM MRI Activator™ device) can be applied ... is the first MRI conditional pacemaker to offer the option of wireless telemetry for streamlined patient ...

Surgeons have been opening chests and implanting pacemakers for decades. The devices save millions of people by controlling their abnormal heartbeats. Now doctors are testing a new version of ...