lasted for three hours and took the life of a young patient who was on an AC-powered pacemaker, said Dr. Robert Kowal, vice president of Medtronic’s cardiac pacing therapies. The blackout was ...

The Halloween 1957 power outage, caused by an explosion at the Black Dog power plant just south of Minneapolis, lasted for three hours and took the life of a young patient who was on an AC-powered ...

(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 ...

However, to ensure uninterrupted inhibition of therapy, care must be exercised to maintain proper magnet positioning over the implanted device. St. Jude Medical and Medtronic were also asked about ...

One thing is certain, though: for such a rare beast, one can always find a few LaFerraris listed for sale on the used car market. Quite a few of them were advertised on Mobile at the time of writing.

Manufacturers are focused on developing miniaturized pacemakers to address the issue of patient comfort. Medtronic’s Micra Transcatheter Pacing System (TPS), the world’s smallest pacemaker, was ...

One of the latest developments is the world’s first app-based remote monitoring system for pacemakers, called MyCareLink Smart™, introduced in January of this year in Canada by Medtronic. This new app ...

Hyundai Motor’s005380-1.93%decrease; red down pointing triangle record initial public offering in India didn’t get off to a good start, but it could still steer the country’s market into new ...

China is now home to the world’s most powerful resistive magnet, which produced a magnetic field that was more than 800,000 times stronger than Earth’s. On 22 September, the magnet ...

Medtronic has issued a second alert letter to patients regarding shortened battery life of the MiniMed 600 and 700 series insulin pumps. The affected products include the MiniMed 630G, 670G, 770G ...