Temporary pacemaker can be injected, fits any size patient, including babies, and eliminates need to remove it.

Developed by engineers from Northwestern University, the pacemaker is the size of a grain of rice and could help save babies ...

On 2 April 2025, engineers at Northwestern University published a study on a new dissolvable pacemaker, smaller than a grain ...

The new device is smaller than a grain of rice and gets absorbed by the patient’s body when it’s no longer needed, ...

Although it can work with hearts of all sizes, the pacemaker is particularly well-suited to the tiny, fragile hearts of ...

Sergio Mattarella has undergone heart surgery for the implantation of a pacemaker. The President of the Republic was admitted ...

The device is smaller than a grain of rice — and is suited particularly to help newborn babies with congenital heart defects.

The tiny device measures just 1.8 millimetres in width, 3.5 millimetres in length and one millimetre in thickness.

Northwestern researchers have developed the world’s smallest pacemaker, which with its dissolvable nature allows it to be ...

A self-powered, bioresorbable temporary pacemaker the size of a grain of rice has been developed by an international team of ...

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