The leads that connect external pacemakers to the heart can potentially cause problems, either if they're removed or left in place. German scientists are therefore developing an alternative, in the ...

Fun fact: Your heart doesn’t need a brain, or a body for that matter, to beat. That’s because it has its own electrical system independent of your nervous system. However, the heart’s beating can go ...

Sixty-seven years ago on Halloween, a rolling power outage wreaked havoc across the Twin Cities and at the University of Minnesota hospital, where cardiac patients were relying on electrical ...

Wood chest with leather handle on top, hinged lid and locking clasp. Chest contains the "Cadiac Stimulator" which is fixed to the inside of the case. The electrical cardiac stimulator has an on/off ...

(WISH) — Former Indiana Pacers player Scot Pollard has been given an external pacemaker to help his new heart. His wife, Dawn Pollard, posted a photo to social media just before 9 p.m. Monday. She ...

The tiny pacemaker sits next to a single grain of rice on a fingertip. The device is so small that it can be non-invasively injected into the body via a syringe. Northwestern University engineers have ...

The patients who made the biggest news at last week’s meeting of the American Heart Association in Miami were those who can talk about their “tickers” without being cute. They are the growing number, ...