Temporary pacemakers, often required after heart surgeries, have long been a double-edged sword. While they provide ...

An 11-year-old boy recently became the first person in the world to have an artificial heart valve replaced with a living ...

Dr. Eric Rytkin discusses the clinical need for—and significant advantages of—his team’s recently unveiled millimeter-scale, bioresorbable pacemaker.

The world’s tiniest pacemaker - smaller than a grain of rice - could help save babies born with heart defects, say scientists. The miniature device can be inserted with a syringe and then ...

Doctors could place multiple pacemakers in different areas of the heart to help synchronise heart rhythms better than current devices. It could also be used with artificial heart valves to prevent ...

A physician at Bassett Medical Center is one of the first in the region to successfully implant a new extravascular ...

a dual-chamber cardiac pacemaker. "Hypertension remains a significant global public health challenge that is especially relevant to the pacemaker population as the most common comorbidity in these ...