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.

Bild: Jean Lachat According to a team of researchers, they have developed the world's smallest pacemaker. The wireless device is smaller than a grain of rice, as the scientists announced on Wednesday.

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 ...

Houston, TX. A wireless, battery-less pacemaker that can be implanted directly into a patient’s heart is being introduced by researchers from Rice University and their colleagues at the Texas Heart ...

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 ...

Beat goes on: new research has identified triplet beat patterns that arise when two pacemakers are present in heart tissue. (Courtesy: CC0 Pexels) A simple set of mathematical rules that accurately ...

CHICAGO — One person’s used pacemaker is another person’s treasure. A program to refurbish used pacemakers could expand access to the lifesaving devices. In a clinical trial of nearly 300 people, ...