There are two common implantable devices for the heart: artificial pacemakers and defibrillators. Artificial pacemakers keep ...

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 ...

conducted an in vitro study to investigate whether electronic interference occurs between video capsules and cardiac pacemakers. The researchers individually tested 21 different pacemakers in a ...

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 ...

Relatively weak magnets in consumer products have always posed some risk, usually very low, to the function of pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs). However, stronger ...

There are several types of artificial pacemaker, which have electrical leads connected to different chambers of the heart. Wires are guided along a vein to the chamber of the heart that needs to ...

UChicago Pritzker Molecular Engineering study could lead to better brain-machine interfaces, biosensors, and pacemakers ...

Apple has listed products it says should be kept a "safe distance" away from medical devices like pacemakers and implanted defibrillators. The list includes iPhone 12 models, Apple Watch and ...