Cardiac pacemakers are battery-dependent, where the pacing leads are prone to introduce valve damage and infection. In addition, complete pacemaker retrieval is necessary for battery replacement.

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - A local wife and mother send a big thank you Tuesday, June 21, to a medical team that helped save her husband's life. They did so with the world's smallest pacemaker. The pacemaker ...

MIT engineers have developed a noninvasive pacemaker that stimulates the heart using ultrasound. The design could one day ...

Regulating a misfiring heart has long required surgeons to permanently embed metal wires and batteries deep inside a ...

The wire-free pacemaker could benefit patients recovering from cardiac surgery, without the need for added operations to remove it. Reading time 2 minutes A team of scientists created a novel type of ...