Information for the 3 million Americans who are living with a pacemaker, after two reported deaths from device failure.

The Accent MRI pacemaker, with the Tendril MRI lead ... An optional, easy-to-use hand-held unit (SJM MRI Activator™ device) can be applied to enable and disable pre-programmed MRI settings ...

With CareLink, the implanted pacemaker or defibrillator regularly ... developing the next generation of wireless medical devices. These will monitor a whole range of health parameters, including ...

UC Davis Director of Pediatric Electrophysiology Dan Cortez has set another world record: He is the first to implant a dual ...

UC Davis Director of Pediatric Electrophysiology Dan Cortez has set another world record: He is the first to implant a dual ...

With the FDA's new requirements for premarket submission and ongoing monitoring by medical device manufacturers in place, ...

Certain Accolade pacemakers can permanently enter safety mode, which limits the devices’ ability to treat patients properly ...

New pacemakers can also monitor blood pressure and breathing. The device records all electrical activity from the heart and allows doctors to access these recordings. A doctor can then adjust the ...

"Pacemakers are approved as single-use devices; it's illegal to reimplant them," said Thomas Crawford, MD, clinical professor of cardiac electrophysiology at the University of Michigan. But that ...

Doctors at University Hospital Southampton have fitted a new type of pacemaker involving two separate devices that can communicate with each other.The system, which could be the solution for ...

Background: To determine the sensitivity and specificity, rate of compliance, and predictors of failure of telephone transmission of pacemaker function in a pediatric population. Methods ...