Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you have a heart rhythm disorder, you may have considered getting a pacemaker -- but you're wary of having a small electronic ...

In 2012, John K (name withheld on request) received a pacemaker implant in his heart. Fast forward to January 2022, 74-year-old John underwent the pacemaker battery replacement surgery at a local ...

Although cardiac pacemakers have saved countless lives, they do have at least one shortcoming – like other electronic devices, their batteries wear out. When this happens, of course, surgery is ...

A new power scheme for cardiac pacemakers turns to an unlikely source: vibrations from heartbeats themselves. A new power scheme for cardiac pacemakers turns to an unlikely source: vibrations from ...

Atrial fibrillation – a form of irregular heartbeat, or arrhythmia – leads to more than 454,000 hospitalizations and nearly 160,000 deaths in the United States each year. Globally, it is estimated ...

Implantable heart pacemakers are lifesaving devices for heart patients, emitting electrical pulses to re-establish normal ...

"I live my life as a grateful person because of you," Takudzwa Chitima tells Dr. Lior Sasson 14 years after undergoing complex pediatric heart surgery.The post Zimbabwean teen returns to ...