Clifton is hardly new to the global medical devices firm. In 2012, he joined a medical supply company responsible for Latin America that was bought by Medtronic within two years. As part of the ...

The first-ever pacemaker to include Managed Ventricular Pacing (MVP®), the EnRhythm™ Pacing System promotes intrinsic conduction and is clinically proven to significantly reduce unnecessary ...

(Courtesy of Medtronic) At the time, pacemakers were “crude devices,” with wires coming out of the person’s body and “they were susceptible like anything that uses wall power,” said ...

Seventy-five years ago, Medtronic, the world’s largest medical device company, was born. It was created in a garage in ...

The chair is named for Earl Bakken, who founded Medtronic in 1949, then worked with University surgeons to develop the first transistorized wearable pacemaker in 1957. Now retired and living in Hawaii ...

A lawsuit against pulse oximeter manufacturers and distributors is starting to create change. But experts say the FDA needs ...

New pacing systems have recently been specifically designed by the major companies for safe use in the MRI environment (EnRhythm, Advisa, and Revo MRI SureScan pacemakers and CapSureFix MRI leads ...

NeurAxis (NASDAQ:NRXS – Get Free Report) and Medtronic (NYSE:MDT – Get Free Report) are both medical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength ...

Medtronic, founded in 1949, is a $100 billion-plus health care equipment behemoth, known for its cardiac pacemakers, ablation products, and much more. So this is not a stock that the market would ...

Roughly the size of a small paperback book, the external pacemaker was also Medtronic’s first product. Shortly after Bakken’s ...